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Can I swim at Owenahincha, Little Island Strand?
Cork, Ireland · Coastal
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Where it is, and what discharges near it
About this bathing water
- Rating for last season
- Excellent Quality (2025)
- Water
- Coastal
- Area
- Cork, Ireland
- Storm overflows
- Not monitored anywhere in Ireland
Owenahincha, Little Island Strand 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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Check the official source
Owenahincha, Little Island Strand'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.