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Mulranny Beach

Mulranny Beach is one of the waters the EPA tests and grades in County Mayo, 1.5 km south-west of Mulranny. The Environmental Protection Agency classified it excellent for water quality for the 2025 season. The register records a lifeguard, toilets, parking, bins, recycling, a lifebuoy, first aid and an information board.

Excellent

water quality, 2025

Yes

Blue Flag

Yes

lifeguard

1.5 km

from Mulranny

Water quality: Excellent, 2025
Seasons before: 2024 Excellent, 2023 Excellent, 2022 Excellent
Water testing: Tested by the EPA sampled through the season and given a water quality grade
Season restriction: None in place
Pollution after rain: Prone to short term pollution
Awards: Blue Flag · the register does not say which year's award
County: County Mayo
Managed by: Mayo County Council
Nearest town: Mulranny, 1.5 km south-west of it, in a straight line
From that town: 2.7 km by road, about 4 min drivingor 2.1 km on foot, about 26 minutes at 4.8 km/h
Lifeguard: Yes, hours not recorded
Toilets: Yes
Parking: Yes
Access: Access ramp at the beach.
Dogs: Dogs only allowed before 12pm and after 6.30pm during the bathing season (1st June to 15th September) otherwise allowed at all times onto beach.
Cars on the beach: No
Public transport: No
Protected area: Recorded as a natural sensitive area
Position: 53.8972° N, 9.7847° W
Record changed: 2026-03-11

Rossmurreveagh Beach·N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Rossmurreveagh Beach·N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

What the EPA says about it

Mulranny Beach is a popular sandy beach located south-west of Mulranny village. The area has an important strand of Mediterranean heath and also machair sand plains and saltmarsh are located within the site. The salt marsh contains a wealth of flora and fauna including an array of flower and bird species. There are 3 Special Area of conservation (SAC)/ proposed Natural Heritage Areas (pNHA) - Owenduff/Nephin Complex cSAC/pNHA (Site Code 000534), Corraun Plateau cSAC/pNHA (Site Code 000485) and Clew Bay Complex cSAC/pNHA (Site Code 001482). There is one Special Protection Area for Birds (SPA) Owenduff/Nephin Complex SPA, (Site Code 004098). The beach is approx. 400metres in length however the bathing area is approximately 0.37km wide and the bathing water is approximately 0.12km2 in area. The medium and maximum water depth within the designated bathing water would be 0.5m and 5.0m respectively depending on tides.

Mulranny Beach is classified as achieving Excellent Water Quality in 2025 based on the assessment of bacteriological results for the period 2022 to 2025. Mulranny Beach has achieved an Excellent Water Quality rating for the four consecutive years 2022 to 2025. Annual water quality ratings are generally calculated using monitoring results over a four-year period and are assessed against stringent bacterial limits to protect bather health.

The EPA’s own beach profile

Where it is

Mulranny Beach, and the other places to swim in County Mayo. Share your position and the map will show how far each one is from you.

Getting to Mulranny Beach

About these directions

Public transport times come from National Transport Authority. Timetables cover 2026-09-18 to 2027-09-19. These are scheduled services; check with the operator for cancellations and changes before travelling.

Walking and driving times are estimates. A town search starts at its centre; choose your location or a point on the map for a more precise starting point. Eircode search is not available.

How journey planning works

Destination, access and nearby stops

Mulranny Beach is in Mulranny, County Mayo. Routes here end at the point the map records for this place. The entrance has not been verified, so the last few metres are for you to judge.

The nearest settlement is Mulranny, 1.5 km south-west of the beach. The register records parking here. Getting to the town is not getting to the beach, so the journey below is worked out to the beach itself and the last stretch on foot is measured rather than left out.

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Stops near it

The nearest scheduled stop is Mulranny (10758), 1.2 km away in a straight line. Use the planner to check walking connections for your journey.

Mulranny 1.2 km
buses 450, 460a and 460b
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Getting to Mulranny covers the journeys into the town itself.

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Questions people ask

Is the water clean at Mulranny Beach?

The EPA classified it Excellent for the 2025 season, which is worked out from four years of samples. Mulranny Beach is classified as achieving Excellent Water Quality in 2025 based on the assessment of bacteriological results for the period 2022 to 2025. Mulranny Beach has achieved an Excellent Water Quality rating for the four consecutive years 2022 to 2025. Annual water quality ratings are generally calculated using monitoring results over a four-year period and are assessed against stringent bacterial limits to protect bather health. A classification is a record of seasons that have finished; it is not a reading of the water today.

Is swimming restricted at Mulranny Beach?

The register records no season-long restriction. That is about the season, not about today: a short notice after heavy rain would not appear here, and this water is recorded as prone to short term pollution. Check with Mayo County Council before swimming.

Does Mulranny Beach have a Blue Flag?

The register records one. It does not record which year's award, and the flag is awarded each season, so it is worth checking the flag is flying when you arrive.

Is there a lifeguard at Mulranny Beach?

The register records one, without giving hours. Outside those hours nobody is watching the water.

How do you get to Mulranny Beach without a car?

The nearest stop in the national timetable is Mulranny, 1.2 km from the beach in a straight line, and buses 450, 460a and 460b call there, run by Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link Mayo. The planner on this page works out the walk from that stop over real footways, and the whole journey from wherever you are starting, for the day and time you pick. Where no footway joins the stop to the beach it says so rather than making a number up.

Where does this come from?

The Environmental Protection Agency's list of places people swim, which it calls the bathing water register, read on 2026-09-20, where this record was last changed on 2026-03-11. Water quality, awards, lifeguards and facilities are the EPA's own fields, and a field it leaves blank is shown as not recorded rather than as a no. The distance to the nearest town is this site's own measurement, in a straight line.

Water quality, awards, lifeguards, toilets, parking and access are the Environmental Protection Agency’s own fields, from its bathing water register, read 2026-09-20. The classification covers four years of sampling and is not a reading for today: after heavy rain the water can be worse than the classification suggests, and the EPA and the local authority post notices when it is. Positions are the EPA’s grid references, projected to latitude and longitude. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable.

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