Spanish Point Beach - 4 Things to Know Before Visiting

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About Spanish Point Beach

A beautiful Sandy beach located near MiItown Malbay in County Clare. The beach itself is sandy with a rocky shoreline, and becomes very wide at low tide, but narrows considerably when the tide is in. It is popular with swimmers and is a good beach for surfing. The beach is located on the northern side of Spanish Point and has ample parking.

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Lahinch Beach

Lahinch Beach

11.58km from Spanish Point Beach

Lahinch is a sandy, crescent-shaped beach in Liscannor Bay on the north west coast of County Clare. The beach directly faces the Atlantic Ocean, meaning it gets the full force of the swells. Lahinch is not always an ideal beach for swimming as the currents can be strong, but there is a lifeguard service during the summer months, and zoning of the beach helps with some safety issues.

Moher Tower at Hag's Head

Moher Tower at Hag's Head

11.92km from Spanish Point Beach

Moher Tower is the stone ruin of an old Napoleonic-era watchtower which stands on Hag's Head, at the southern end of the Cliffs of Moher, in County Clare, Ireland. The current tower stands close to the site of a much earlier promontory fort, known as Mothar or Moher. The building is a single, nearly square, tower with two rectilinear bartizans protruding from the top of its eastern wall, and one from the western wall.

Lahinch Golf Club

Lahinch Golf Club

12.04km from Spanish Point Beach

Lahinch Golf Club is one of Ireland's greatest golfing treasures on the west coast. It was founded 129 years ago in 1892 by Alexander W. Shaw and Richard J. Plummer, officials of Limerick Golf Club. They laid out an 18-hole course, the original course had ten holes on each side of the road. It has been described as the "St. Andrew's" of Ireland.

White Strand Beach

White Strand Beach

13.22km from Spanish Point Beach

A beautiful and small sandy beach at the end of a narrow rock-flanked bay. The beach also forms part of the Valentia Harbour and Portmagee Channel Special Area of Conservation and the Iveragh Peninsula Special Protection Area. The view from White Strand Beach looks across to Doughmore Strand which is a very popular surfing, swimming and family beach. White Strand Beach and surrounding coastline are also popular with fishing enthusiasts.

Doonbeg Castle

Doonbeg Castle

13.83km from Spanish Point Beach

Doonbeg Castle stands at the bottom of a little bay about three miles south of Tromra. It is in good preservation and partly inhabited by a poor family - about six miles north west of Kilrush. It is an iconic attraction in this area and there are so many things to see and do here.

Burren Way

Burren Way

14.25km from Spanish Point Beach

The Burren Way is a 123km walking route that takes in the best of what the Burren area has to offer. The trail, typically completed in five days, comprises sections of tarmac road, boreen, droving road, path and forestry track. It is designated as a National Waymarked Trail by the National Trails Office of the Irish Sports Council and is managed by the Burren Way Committee.

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County Clare

County Clare

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County Clare is a county in Ireland, in the Mid-West Region and the province of Munster, bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. Clare County Council is the local authority. The county had a population of 118,817 at the 2016 census. The county town and largest settlement is Ennis.

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