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Co Mayo's Keem Bay has again won serious praise from Lonely Planet being named among the world's most incredible beaches.

A “jaw-droppingly beautiful horseshoe bay” on Ireland’s west coast has been named among 100 of the world’s “most incredible” beaches by Lonely Planet.

Keem Bay beach on Achill Island is the only beach in Ireland to be named as one of the top 100 beaches in the world by travel publisher Lonely Planet. The Achil...

Achill Island beach described as ‘jaw-droppingly beautiful’ and ‘one of Ireland’s most glorious, secluded strands’

These beaches may just prompt a cry of shell yeah! They all feature in eye-catching new Lonely Planet book 100 of the Worlds Most Incredible Beaches.

This is a curated guide to what you should pack for a trip to Ireland, whether you’re sightseeing in Dublin or exploring the Cliffs of Moher.

Travel to the top left corner of Co Mayo, past Céide Fields along the north coast, or Wild Nephin National Park from the south, and you’ll come to the town of Belmullet and the Mullet Peninsula.

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  Lonely Planet has picked its top 10 beaches in Ireland, describing the 6,200km coastline here as a “beachgoer’s paradise”. The travel-guide publisher’s selection of beaches ranges from “quiet coves” to “great stretches of golden sand”, most of them along the western seaboard, with Co Donegal and Co Kerry particulary well represented. Killiney Beach, just south of Dublin city, is the only beach on the east coast to make the list, with the surrounding ba...

10 best beaches in Ireland Fionn Davenport Keem Beach in County Mayo © Christian McLeod Ireland’s coastline is a rich, 6200km-long necklace of glorious spots where the land meets the sea. From quiet coves known only to a few to great stretches of golden sand that are a destination in their own right, Ireland’s coastline is a beachgoer’s paradise. The best invariably are on the wild western coastlines, where the occasionally angry waters of the Atlantic mightn’t at ...