Review of Identified Bathing Waters

In April 2006 the consultation paper, 'Review of Identification of Northern Ireland Bathing Waters 2006' was published. The review resulted in an increase in the number of identified bathing waters from 16 to 23.

A list of Northern Ireland's identified bathing waters is given below. The number of identified bathing waters was increased to 24 in 2008 with the addition of Portballintrae in Co. Antrim. Further information on these places can be found on the relevant Department of Environment Bathing Water web page.

Bathing Water	Area	Comment	Irish Grid Reference
Magilligan (Benone)	North Coast	existing identification	IC 7181 3625
Magilligan (Downhil)	North Coast	identified in 2006	IC 7503 3627
Castlerock	North Coast	existing identification	IC 7755 3638
Portstewart	North Coast	existing identification	IC 8087 3677
Portrush Mill (West Strand)	North Coast	existing identification	IC 8560 4063
Portrush Curran (East Strand)	North Coast	existing identification	IC 8615 4059
Whiterocks (Portrush)	North Coast	identified in 2006	IC 8832 4085
Portballintrae	North Coast	identified in 2008	IC 9278 4242
Ballycastle	Antrim Coast	existing identification	ID 1303 4126
Waterfoot	Antrim Coast	identified in 2006	ID 2419 2560
Carnlough	Antrim Coast	identified in 2006	ID 2893 1675
Ballygalley	Antrim Coast	identified in 2006	ID 3743 0781
Brown's Bay	Antrim Coast	existing identification	ID 4354 0287
Helen's Bay	North Down	existing identification	IJ 4603 8294
Crawfordsburn	North Down	existing identification	IJ 4667 8256
Ballyholme	North Down	existing identification	IJ 5178 8226
Groomsport	North Down	existing identification	IJ 5412 8342
Millisle	North Down	existing identification	IJ 5981 7618
Ballywalter	North Down	identified in 2006	IJ 6295 6874
Tyrella	South Down	existing identification	IJ 4698 3601
Murlough Bay Co. Down	South Down	identified in 2006	IJ 4004 3344
Newcastle Co. Down	South Down	existing identification	IJ 3802 3150
Cranfield (Cranfield Bay)	South Down	existing identification	IJ 2599 1065
Cranfield (Nicholson's Strand)	South Down	existing identification	IJ 2824 1089