Best places: Beaches in Ireland

Remote sandy stretch in a sheltered, horseshoe-shaped bay, accessed by steps down the cliffside.

Vast pale-sand beach backed by grassy dunes, popular for swimming & walking, with seaside cafes.

👍👍 Enniscrone beach presents you with roughly 5km of golden sand. You might think that's an exaggeration, but it’s not. This beach is the real deal. And on the landward side the full length is defined by a series of sand dunes - some really massive (like the famous “Valley of Diamonds”) all creating a...

👍👍 Beautiful beach.... Depending on high or low tides you may have to walk a little to find a place to put your picnic mat and chill. But it's worth it. You And the kids can play in water. there is a car park (7mmin walk) from the beach which is free ..not sure about the one close to the beach guess yo...

Beach with powdery sand, dunes & summer lifeguards, used by families, horse riders & dog walkers.

👍👍 Beautiful beach near Portsalon, County Donegal. There's parking and toilet facilities beside the beach. It has a lifeguard hut on the beach. Drive up the hill from the beach and you'll get fantastic views of the whole beach at a couple of viewpoints.

👍👍 Beautiful place, where you can find beach and mountain on the other side. 🥰 I was there when the People's market was running and it was so nice too. Recommend this place!

👍👍 Carpark was small enough but a minute back the road there was a field opened up for parking. Plenty of room. Clean toilets and outdoor shower in the carpark. Disabled parking and beach wheelchair available on request for free. The beach was beautiful, busy but plenty of room as it goes on forever....

👍👍 From a distance one would think its a sandy beach but on close inspection on arrival this beach is like no other.... Covered in crunchy coral. Got to be seen. It was 30degrees in in heatwave the day I was here and the locals were mostly in the crystal clear water cooling down. Fantastic to here the...

👍👍 Beautiful unspoilt beach near Grange in County Sligo. It's easy to spend the afternoon here walking along the beach, swimming and sunbathing. There's a lifeguard located on the beach, toilet facilities, a carpark and usually an ice-cream van. It's important to check the high tide times on the inform...

Protected, dune-backed beach with soft, white sand & the ruins of a medieval church on Abbey Island.

👍👍 Lovely huge, clean, soft and sandy beach. Great for kite flying and dog walking, there is also a small but busy surf school here, but beach is big enough, it is not crowded and was virtually empty when we visited midweek in May. Campervan and car parking behind the bank of pebbles, right at the beac...

Relaxed beach on a peninsula for walking & horseback riding, with an annual horse-racing festival.

👍👍 Lovely beach. Lots of free parking and toilet facilities. Visit on a very sunny day to get the best out of it.

👍👍 Portmarnock Beach is a Blue Flag beach in North County Dublin. Fingal Council have provided excellent changing facilites, public toilets, and patrolling lifeguards at setbtimes during day. Best time to visit is before 11am and after 5pm on weekends as its gets very crowded in summer months. The beac...