Enniscrone Beach & Seaweed Baths
About
Ballina's nearest proper beach is the long Atlantic strand at Enniscrone, just over the Sligo border about 10 km north, a Blue Flag sweep of sand running for several kilometres along Killala Bay, popular for walking, surfing and a bracing swim. The other Enniscrone institution is Kilcullen's, a Victorian seaweed-bath house where you soak in hot seawater and steam in original porcelain baths, the classic North-West restorative after a day in the wind. Between the strand and the baths it makes the easiest half-day out from Ballina when the town has had enough of the river.
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Highlights
- ✓A Blue Flag Atlantic strand running for several kilometres
- ✓Surfing, walking and a bracing swim on Killala Bay
- ✓Kilcullen's Victorian seaweed baths for a hot-seawater soak
- ✓The easiest half-day from Ballina, about 10 km north
Tips
- →About 10 km from Ballina, just over the Sligo border; you need a car.
- →Book a seaweed bath at Kilcullen's ahead in summer.
- →The strand is exposed; the seaweed baths are the wet-day backup.
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