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Best Beach in Ireland?

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  • #32
    lisbon_lions
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    Has to be a beach with no buildings or crap ruining the landscape.

    Its got to be the local beach at Kinnagoe bay in Donegal for me. I surf plenty of others up there but none are anywhere as nice..and they are always empty.

    http://www.treanhouse.com/photos/images/localarea/LA11_KinnagoeBay.JPG


  • #33
    InKonspikuou2
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    Pity Ireland doesn't get better summers. Some nice beaches here and very different from the usual tropical ones. Although the beach i grew up beside as a kid is still my favorite ever.

    Playa Blanca, Cartagena


  • #34
    R0ot
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    The 5 Finger Strand, Inishowen, Donegal


  • #35
    Michellenman
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    There's this gorgeous beach up in Fanad in northern Donegal. Absolutely beautiful. Grogeous sand and clear blue water. Beautiful in the summer but also fantastic to walk along in the winter. It's also nearly entirely secluded most of the time, perfect :)


  • #36
    Snowie
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    ladys cove in stradbaily in waterford is cool tho you have to know where it is... another one being balleydowain cove to...

    Also Brandan bay near castle gregory in kerry is awesome and in spring get some really really really nice wabes :D


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  • #37
    neil_hosey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭neil_hosey


    secluded beach i came across on inishbofin a few years ago. heaven on earth. Completely empty

    http://img189.imageshack.us/i/34887913.png/
    http://img714.imageshack.us/i/47341007127197526749147.jpg/
    http://img718.imageshack.us/i/20225581.png/

    You can see the 12 bens mountains of connemara in the far distance in the first one :)


    A good 20 maybe 30 minute walk from any road, not that theres much roads on the island.


  • #38
    Mint Sauce
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    whats so popular about rossnowgh, anytime i've there its always been full of northern reg cars racing up and down doing handbrake turns, neighbouring 'murvagh' beach is so much nicer.


  • #39
    Whispered
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    silver strand in wicklow. small but lovely.


  • #40
    fontanalis
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    irish-stew wrote: »
    whats so popular about rossnowgh, anytime i've there its always been full of northern reg cars racing up and down doing handbrake turns, neighbouring 'murvagh' beach is so much nicer.

    Sitting on a body board with a nice swell bobbing you up and down and the sun setting on a nice september evening, then rushing down the face of a (admitedly small) wave hearing the swoosh and seeing all the sand and seaweed getting sucked up gives a different perspective.
    Point taken with all the knobs though.


  • #41
    stvincent
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    irish-stew wrote: »
    whats so popular about rossnowgh, anytime i've there its always been full of northern reg cars racing up and down doing handbrake turns, neighbouring 'murvagh' beach is so much nicer.
    Murvagh has no surf and you have to walk for a few hundred meters before you get any depth, especially when the tide is out.

    Rossnowlagh for me too.

    Safe to swim, has a couple of pubs, sand hills and occasional surf

    Although Tullan strand in Bundoran is beautiful to walk and has huge sand hills, it's not really suitable for swimming.


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  • #42
    Elenxor
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    Inch.Annascaul. Co. Kerry.

    The most beautiful beach on this planet

    Nothing to touch it anywhere.


  • #43
    WIZE
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    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Portmarnock.

    I love it there, even in the rain.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSBLRXqDSoc


    I grew up across the road from that beach .

    I miss that beach:(


  • #44
    Mint Sauce
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    fontanalis wrote: »
    Sitting on a body board with a nice swell bobbing you up and down and the sun setting on a nice september evening, then rushing down the face of a (admitedly small) wave hearing the swoosh and seeing all the sand and seaweed getting sucked up gives a different perspective.
    Point taken with all the knobs though.
    stvincent wrote: »
    Murvagh has no surf and you have to walk for a few hundred meters before you get any depth, especially when the tide is out.

    Rossnowlagh for me too.

    Safe to swim, has a couple of pubs, sand hills and occasional surf

    Although Tullan strand in Bundoran is beautiful to walk and has huge sand hills, it's not really suitable for swimming.

    yes, the waves/swell is nice at rossnowlagh, any time i've been there spent the whole time in the water away from the crowd. just like the peacefulness you get at murvagh, more secluded.


  • #45
    stvincent
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    Sandhills on Tullan strand


  • #46
    byhookorbycrook
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    Snow-Monkey wrote: »
    ladys cove in stradbaily in Waterford is cool tho you have to know where it is... another one being balleydowain cove to...

    Also Brandan bay near castle gregory in kerry is awesome and in spring get some really really really nice wabes :D
    Ballydwan has unsafe cliffs, be careful. Ladycove or as my mother calls it (she was raised up the road from Ballyvooney)Cuan na gcailín isn't the easiest to get to, apparently when I was a tiny child a neighbour used to put me in her apron and carry me down, much to the horror of my mother.


  • #47
    Raiser
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    Thanks for all the replies - there have been some incredible suggestions and some of the photos are truly amazing.

    One thing I've only discovered late in life is that a visit to a nice Irish Beach on a dry, bright/sunny day any Month of the year is a fantastic way to spend a few hours - just wear a decent jacket, scarf and hat.

    Garretstown Beach January 5pm (after Sunday Dinner in Speckled Door)

    Sandycove near Kinsale in February

    - The Ladies Beach in Ballybunion is a great choice also as the Cliffs provide an excellent natural wind-breaker!!!


  • #48
    Dudess
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    There are loads, but the one at the forefront of my mind is Inchydoney in west Cork, near Clonakilty.


  • #49
    Little Acorn
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    Some nice Sligo beaches:
    Lissadell Beach
    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3258/2636694443_9b6b217988.jpg?v=0

    Streedagh Beach Sligo
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82D_bti7mXg

    http://s3.amazonaws.com/picable/2009/07/22/1192223_Streedagh-Beach-at-Sunset_620.jpg

    Rosses Point Beach Sligo
    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3237/2608683949_78aef88f54.jpg?v=0

    http://www.radford.edu/eurotrails/Yeats_Tour_Day_2/Rosses-Point.jpg

    Mullaghmore Beach Sligo
    http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/17508864.jpg

    Donegal:
    Warden Beach
    http://www.theodora.com/wfb/photos/ireland/warden_beach_portsalon_donegal_co_ulster_ireland_photo_roger_kinkead.jpg

    Marbel Hill
    http://scaneveryphoto.com/images/Marbel%20Hill%20Beach%20Donegal%20(1%20of%201).jpg


  • #50
    K-9
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    Marble Hill, near Dunfanaghy in Donegal is nice. Stunning views.

    Culdaff beach in Inishown is hard to beat, think it was voted one of the top beaches in Europe before:

    Culdaff Beach | Vacation trips to Ireland | Ireland 2010

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • #51
    rebel10
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    Elenxor wrote: »
    Inch.Annascaul. Co. Kerry.

    The most beautiful beach on this planet

    Nothing to touch it anywhere.

    Never got the magic of this place, spent a few weeks there a few years ago. Just a beach with cars driving up and down and up and down. Nothing that really sets it apart from others. The dunes are mucho fun though. Have to say barleycove has a special effect on me!


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  • #52
    ch750536
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    Ballinrannig Huge waves on a calm day, deadly dangerous.


  • #53
    recylingbin
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    Samantha Mumba


  • #54
    Paparazzo
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    Silver Strand in Donegal. Nice and sheltered from the wind too.

    Silver Strand 1

    Silver Strand 2


  • #55
    BrianJD
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    The Best I've been to has to be Inchydoney


  • #56
    stovelid
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    I like Portmarnock too. And Fanore beach in Clare.


  • #57
    Raiser
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    ch750536 wrote: »
    Ballinrannig Huge waves on a calm day, deadly dangerous.

    Strangest recommendation yet!!!

    - Must go down there tomorrow with a Busload of People I really don't like.....


  • #58
    neilthefunkeone
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    Eh this one...

    Slea Head, Ventry.... Love going there and popping into O'Sheas on the way back for a pint!!!!


  • #59
    InTheTrees
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    We used to go to Brittas bay in Wicklow when i was a kid:

    http://homepage.eircom.net/~brittasbay/images/vista.jpg

    Then we moved to Connemara, which is like one huge beach.


  • #60
    flanzer
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    Can't believe no one has mentioned Curracloe beach yet, and they filmed Saving Ryans Privates on it. Very long, fine sand, just beautiful

    http://lh5.ggpht.com/_J0t42asx7lU/Rr79LtgIL-I/AAAAAAAAAvo/83raAjKFK_E/Picture+036-1.jpg


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  • #61
    star.chaser
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    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Portmarnock.

    I love it there, even in the rain.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSBLRXqDSoc

    wow, impressive, can't believe i missed out on this growing up.


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