Youghal

Youghal is a seaside resort town in County Cork sitting on the estuary of the river Blackwater. As a historic walled seaport town on the coastline of east Cork, it has many historic buildings and monuments within its ancient town walls. Youghal is a popular tourist destination.

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Water Quality

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Current Status
This status is based on the latest sample, taken on October 4th, 2019. Cork Harbour Waterkeeper updates the status of this beach as soon as test results become available. These results were posted to Swim Guide on October 4th, 2019 at 4:38 PM.

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Monitoring Frequency

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Cork Harbour Waterkeeper staff and trained volunteers monitor recreational water quality at 14 locations in and around the Cork Harbour. Sampling is conducted the first Monday of the month from February to October. Sites are currently sampled for E.coli, enterococcus, and total coliforms. Results are analyzed using the IDEXX Quanti Tray/2000 MPN and expressed as the most probable number (MPN).

Results are interpreted against the recreational water quality standards prescribed by both the Irish EPA and the European Commission’s Bathing Water Directive.

A beach is posted red when a single sample test result fails to meet the “sufficient” standard for marine or brackish waters: 185 enterococci / 100ml of water or 500 E.coli / 100ml of water.
A beach is posted green when a single sample test result meets the “sufficient” standard both 185 enterococci / 100ml of water and 500 E.coli / 100ml of water.

A beach is posted grey when there are no test results are available at the time of regularly scheduled sampling.

Test results are posted to Swim Guide as soon as they become available, typically 24 hours after samples are processed.

Contact : corkharbourwaterguardians@gmail.com

Water Quality Graph

Beach	Location	Water Quality
Garryvoe Cork, Ireland	Cork, Ireland	Current Status
Cuskinny Cork, Ireland	Cork, Ireland	Current Status
Gobby Beach Ringaskiddy Cork, Ireland	Cork, Ireland	Current Status
Loch Beach, Ringaskiddy Cork, Ireland	Cork, Ireland	Current Status

Beach

Location

Water Quality

Garryvoe

Cork, Ireland

Current Status

Cuskinny

Cork, Ireland

Current Status

Gobby Beach Ringaskiddy

Cork, Ireland

Current Status

Loch Beach, Ringaskiddy

Cork, Ireland

Current Status

	Green means the beach’s most recent test results met relevant water quality standards.

	Red means the beach’s most recent test results failed to meet water quality standards.

	Grey means water quality information for the beach is too old (more than 7 days old) to be considered current, or that info is unavailable, or unreliable.

	Green means the beach passed water quality tests 95% of the time or more.

	Yellow means the beach passed water quality tests 60-95% of the time.

	Red means the beach failed water quality tests 40% of the time or more.

	This means that this site has been issued a Blue Flag status for the current swimming season. This status does not indicate current water quality.

	Red means the water at the site has water quality issues or there is an emergency.

	Grey means there is no current water quality information, the beach is under construction, there has been an event that has rendered water quality information unreliable or unavailable.