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Can I swim at Half Moon?

Dublin, Ireland · Coastal

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Photograph near Half Moon by Gerald England
Photograph near Half Moon by Gerald England · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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About this bathing water

Rating for last season
Excellent Quality (2025)
Water
Coastal
Area
Dublin, Ireland
Storm overflows
Not monitored anywhere in Ireland

Half Moon was rated Excellent Quality for 2025 — the highest of the four grades in the Bathing Water Regulations. That grade comes from bacterial samples taken over several seasons, so it describes the beach's record rather than the water on any given day.

The local authority publishes bathing restrictions and sample results for this beach. There is no storm overflow monitoring anywhere in Ireland, so sewage discharges cannot be checked here at all.

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Half Moon's official profile (PDF) at beaches.ie · See it on a map

This page is not official. It reads published data and presents it plainly; if a sign at the beach says otherwise, believe the sign.