Beaches in Donegal, Galway, Sligo, and Cork also made the list.
Stunning Mayo beach named the best place to swim in Ireland and the UK
The stunning Keem Bay in Achill was named as the top place to go swimming in the sea by Ocean Bottle, a company that manufactures reusable water bottles with a commitment to collecting the equivalent of 1,000 plastic bottles from the ocean for every bottle sold.
The list of beaches was compiled following a study of average water quality across the past year, including the E.coli and intestinal Enterococci count, to first determine how safe the beach was for swimming.
This was then cross-referenced with the location's Google Ratings and reviews, with any location with less than 100 reviews being removed.
Here's the top 20 places to swim across Ireland and the UK:
Keem Bay, Achill Island, Mayo
Barafundle Bay, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Mwnt Beach, Ceredigion, Wales
Marloes Sands, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Upton Towans, Cornwall, England
Trá na Dóilín, Galway
Porthcurno Beach, Cornwall, England
Rhossili Beach, Swansea, Wales
Dooey Beach, Donegal
Durdle Door, Dorset, England
Woolacombe Beach, Devon, England
Curracloe Beach, Wexford
Dog's Bay, Galway
Enniscrone Beach, Sligo
Holywell Bay, Cornwall, England
Long Sands Beach, Tyne and Wear, England
Porth Dafarch, Anglesey, Wales
Church Cove Beach, Cornwall, England
Freshwater West, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Seacliff, Berwick, Scotland
A Blue Flag beach in Galway was also named as the top hidden gem in Ireland and the UK.
Aillebrack (Silverhill Beach) in Galway topped the list due to its high water quality, but had very few reviews.
Ireland's beaches dominated the list of hidden gems, with 12 of the 20 beaches named along the coasts.
Here's the full list of hidden gem beaches across Ireland and the UK:
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