Beaches in Ardglass, County Down

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The beach guide has 4 beaches listed in and around the town of Ardglass. We have arranged these beaches in order of closest to the town first (distance in brackets).

  • Rossglass Beach (3.3 miles)

    Rossglass © Alastair Rae

    A large sandy beach extending for over a mile. Sandy shingle at high tide with rocks beyond the shoreline

  • Tyrella Beach (Clough) (5.6 miles)

    Tyrella Beach (Clough) © Rod Allday | BY-SA

    The flat, wide, sandy beach of Tyrella in Downpatrick, County Down, is an enclosed two kilometre complex of dunes within Dundrum Bay. It backs on to 25 hectares of mature dunes located in a conservation area. There are pleasant scenic walks nearby, and the area is known as a haven for local fauna and flora.…

  • Knockinelder Bay (9.9 miles)

    Knockinelder Bay © Eric Jones | BY-SA

    Knockinelder Bay is a good-sized crescent of sand and shingle towards the southern end of the Ards Peninsula. The beach here is sometimes referred to as Kearney after the 18th-century fishing village here.

    The tidal range is quite large at Knockinelder and whilst the beach can be reduced to a narrow shingle strip at high tide, low…

  • Cloughey Bay (13.3 miles)

    Cloughey Bay © Eric Jones

    Cloughey Bay beach is a somewhat undiscovered gem with its expanse of fine golden sand. The long crescent of beach stretches for around 1.5 miles along the east coast of the Ard Peninsula on Northern Ireland's east coast. The bay faces south eastwards, out into the relative shelter of the Irish Sea. There is also…

Ardglass beaches map

Map featuring Ardglass beaches. Click on pins to view beach details