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===Coast=== [[File:Brittas Bay (Jul 2013).jpg|thumb|right|Beach at [[Brittas Bay]]. The county is a popular seaside destination]] Wicklow has a relatively [[List of Irish counties by coastline|short coastline]], at {{convert|64|km|miles}} in length.<ref>{{cite journal |url= https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272771499905073 |title= The Relative Lengths of Seashore Substrata Around the Coastline of Ireland as Determined by Digital Methods in a Geographical Information System |date= 22 April 1999 |publisher= Environmental Sciences Unit, Trinity College Dublin |doi= 10.1006/ecss.1999.0507 |access-date= 13 July 2021 |archive-date= 13 July 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210713111748/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272771499905073 |url-status= live |last1= Neilson |first1= Brigitte |last2= Costello |first2= Mark J. |journal= Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science |volume= 49 |issue= 4 |pages= 501β508 |bibcode= 1999ECSS...49..501N |s2cid= 128982465 }}</ref> Wicklow's coastline is mostly straight, with few sizable bays or inlets and no offshore islands, giving it a shorter coastline than smaller counties like [[County Louth|Louth]] and Dublin. [[Wicklow Head]] is the county's most prominent coastal headland, and is also the most easterly mainland point of the Republic of Ireland.<ref>{{cite book |last=Winn |first=Christopher |year=2015 |title=I Never Knew That about the Irish |publisher=Random House |page=145 |isbn=9780091960254}}</ref> Wicklow's east coast is a popular domestic summer holiday destination, and the county has numerous beaches including [[Brittas Bay]], Clogga Beach, The Cove, Silver Strand Beach, Sallymount Bay Beach, Ennereilly Beach, Newcastle Beach, Arklow's Porter's Rock Beach and South Beach, Greystones North and South Beaches, Bray Strand, and Magheramore Beach.
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