Nearest Blue Flag Beaches Ireland
Blue Flag beaches in , Ireland, the Blue Flag award is a prestigious, international award scheme that aims to provide an assurance to tourists that a beach has met a minimum standard. To collect a Blue Flag any UK and Ireland beach must achieve the highest quality of water, facilities, safety, environmental education and management.
Below we list the current Ireland beaches holding the Blue Flag award.
- Ventry beach is a sandy beach sitting a sheltered bay. The beach area has Ventry Strand a small dune system, a small lake, wet grasslands and an extensive Common Reed swamp.
- Kells beach is a sandy next to Kells harbour. The beach is within an area of Natural Heritage and Special area of Conservation.
- Rossnowlagh beach is just over a 3 km stretch of sand backed by sand dunes and cliffs. The beach faces westward to the Atlantic Ocean and Donegal Bay funnels the Atlantic rollers making this a popular beach for all standards of surfers, bodyboarders, windsurfers, and kitesurfers. Facilities at the beach include car parking on and off the beach itself, seasonal lifeguards, and nearby you have pub, cafes, hotel, shops and post office.
- Garrylucas beach is a sandy beach with some sand dunes. You do get two beaches for one here as Garretstown Beach is just next door and very popular with surfers and bodyboarders.
- Dunmore East has a few small beaches along with the larger Councillors beach.
- Brittas Bay North is a sandy beach backed by sand dunes. Brittas has a 3.2km of beach with two access point known as the South and North beaches.
- Fenit beach is a small beach next to the harbour at the fishing village of Fenit.
- Whitestrand beach is a small sandy beach with a rocky shoreline.
- Fanore beach is a sandy beach on the Atlantic coast of Ireland backed by large areas of sand dunes known as the “Rabbit Warren”, and at low tide, you have exposed limestone. This beach is an unspoilt beach located in the heart of the Burren and Cliffs of Moher Global Geopark that makes thisparticularly interesting to botanists. Facilities at the beach include car parking, toilets, seasonal lifeguards, whilst the nearby village of Fanore has a coffee shop, pub, and shop.
- Dugort Beach is a small sandy beach located on Achill Island. The area around the beach is within a Special Conservation Area and consists of low-lying flat grassland or machair.
- Culdaff beach, a Special area of conservation this sandy beach is on the Inishowen Peninsula.
