First pick
Ballyhaise Amenity Park
Park or garden · 190 m outside town
0.8 ha0.2 km of path
1.4 km north-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.044%near a park
Outdoors in Ballyhaise · parks, paths & countryside
Woods cover more of Ballyhaise than of 9 in 10 Irish towns
Mapped woodland takes up 12% of Ballyhaise and the kilometre around it. 44% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. 2 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 0.2 for every square kilometre.
Near a park
44%
of residents within 400 m
Typical Irish town: 92%
Green space
5.2 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical Irish town: 4.1 ha
Footpaths
2 km
0.2 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical Irish town: 2.1 km per km²
Protected for nature
4.3%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Lough Oughter and Associated Loughs SAC
Woodland
12%
of the town and 1 km around it
Typical Irish town: 2.7%
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Ballyhaise?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Wooded country12% mapped woodland in and around town, more than 96% of Irish towns.Few mapped footpaths0.2 km of path per km²; the typical Irish town has 2.1.
Ballyhaise’s strongest suit is its woods. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Against other towns
How Ballyhaise compares with Irish towns
Each figure against Ireland’s 321 towns and city neighbourhoods of 2,500+ (city hubs left out): the marked bar is the town’s, the line the median. Ireland has no Outdoors Grade yet: the figures are described, each against other Irish towns, and none of them counts towards the overall grade.
A park within a walk44%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
1out of 100
Public green space5.2 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
60out of 100
Footpaths0.2 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
2out of 100
Protected for nature4.3%of the land within 5 km
69out of 100
Woodland12%of the town and 1 km around it, as mapped
97out of 100
Parks, paths and woods: OpenStreetMap; residents: CSO Census 2022 Small Areas; protected sites: NPWS; sea: CSO and ONS land outlines. A 0 means nothing is mapped.
Towns its size
Ballyhaise has the 4th fewest footpaths per km² of 40 towns its size
The 40 Irish towns nearest in population (748 to 3,141 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Ballybrack (8.6 km per km²) to Sixmilebridge (0 km per km²).
Footpath, km per km²
Ballyhaise0.2
Towns its size0.7
Co. Cavan towns0.6
Typical Irish town2.1
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Ballyhaise5.2
Towns its size4.1
Co. Cavan towns2.2
Typical Irish town4.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Ballyhaise44%
Towns its size83%
Co. Cavan towns80%
Typical Irish town92%
Against towns its size, Ballyhaise stands out most for park space per resident: only 15 of the other 39 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 36 of the others do better.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | The sea | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ballybrack Dublin | 8.6 | 8% | 0.2% | 36% |
| 2 | Sunday's Well Cork | 7.3 | 2.7% | 0.4% | – |
| 3 | Blackpool Cork | 6.6 | 3% | 1.4% | – |
| 4 | Carna Dublin | 5.4 | 1.7% | 0% | – |
| 5 | Taylor's Hill Galway | 5.1 | 1.2% | 15% | 37% |
| 6 | Togher Cork | 5 | 1.5% | 0.5% | – |
| 7 | Decies Dublin | 4.8 | 7.2% | 0% | – |
| 8 | Mayfield Cork | 4.7 | 5.3% | 3.3% | – |
| 9 | Kylemore Dublin | 4 | 3% | 0% | – |
| 10 | Edenmore Dublin | 2.8 | 3.6% | 5.9% | 24% |
| 11 | Ballynanty Limerick | 2.5 | 5.7% | 12% | – |
| 12 | Claddagh Galway | 2.4 | 0.2% | 17% | 46% |
| 13 | Murrough Galway | 2.3 | 5.1% | 10% | 26% |
| 14 | Grange Upper Waterford | 1.4 | 1.5% | 6.6% | – |
| 15 | Blarney Cork | 1.4 | 14% | 0% | – |
| 16 | Kilbarry Waterford | 1.3 | 1.6% | 5.1% | – |
| 17 | Bantry Cork | 1 | 4.4% | 0% | 18% |
| 18 | Ballina Tipperary | 0.9 | 1.8% | 4.7% | – |
| 19 | Moate Westmeath | 0.7 | 2.4% | 2.4% | – |
| 20 | Callan Kilkenny | 0.7 | 0.1% | 2.3% | – |
| 21 | Kingscourt Cavan | 0.7 | 12% | 0% | – |
| 22 | Kenmare Kerry | 0.6 | 7.2% | 6.5% | 6.4% |
| 23 | Athboy Meath | 0.6 | 1.1% | 1.5% | – |
| 24 | Bundoran Donegal | 0.5 | 2% | 5.1% | 35% |
| 25 | Muinebeag (Bagenalstown) Carlow | 0.5 | 3.9% | 2.9% | – |
| 26 | Skibbereen Cork | 0.5 | 1.7% | 1.6% | – |
| 27 | Kinnegad Westmeath | 0.3 | 4.5% | 4.5% | – |
| 28 | Donegal Donegal | 0.3 | 4% | 4.1% | 12% |
| 29 | Boyle Roscommon | 0.3 | 3.2% | 0% | – |
| 30 | Bailieborough Cavan | 0.3 | 10% | 0% | – |
| 31 | Castleisland Kerry | 0.3 | 1.7% | 12% | – |
| 32 | Kanturk Cork | 0.3 | 0% | 5.1% | – |
| 33 | Baltinglass Wicklow | 0.2 | 4.9% | 0.5% | – |
| 34 | Ballyhaunis Mayo | 0.2 | 2.8% | 3.4% | – |
| 35 | Kilrush Clare | 0.2 | 9.8% | 37% | – |
| 36 | Ballyjamesduff Cavan | 0.2 | 7.6% | 0% | – |
| 37 | Ballyhaise Cavan | 0.2 | 12% | 4.3% | – |
| 38 | Gort Galway | 0.2 | 4.3% | 24% | – |
| 39 | Carndonagh Donegal | 0.1 | 4.9% | 5.1% | 5.8% |
| 40 | Sixmilebridge Clare | 0 | 0.7% | 2% | – |
The map
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Ballyhaise’s urban area.
Green: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces and woods, named or not.© OpenStreetMap contributors · NPWS · Sport Ireland · CSO
Places to walk
Parks to walk in, in and around Ballyhaise
The biggest is Ballyhaise Amenity Park, 0.8 ha (2 acres).
Named parks, gardens, commons and woods in the town or within 400 m of it, from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); pieces of one name that touch are one place. Sizes are the whole site; directions go to a point inside.
Close to home
4 in 10 Ballyhaise residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park
Each square is 1 in 100 residents: green lives within 400 m of a public park, garden or playing field (CSO Census 2022 Small Areas against OpenStreetMap).
Within 400 m (44%)Further (56%)
Ballyhaise44%
Co. Cavan towns80%
Typical Irish town92%
About 400 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
Protected areas
4.3% of the land around Ballyhaise is protected for nature
Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas and Natural Heritage Areas designated by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, within 5 km of the town’s edge.
Inside Ballyhaise0%
Within 5 km4.3%
Co. Cavan towns0%
Typical Irish town1.8%
2 protected sites lie within 5 km of Ballyhaise. Proposed Natural Heritage Areas cover 8.4% of the land within 5 km as well; many have been proposed since 1995 and aren’t counted here. Ireland’s National Parks have a block of their own on this page; much of their land also lies inside these sites.
Protected sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service designated site boundaries (CC BY 4.0), 2026; land within 5 km from CSO Small Areas and, over the border, ONS. Overlapping sites are counted once.
National Parks
Glenveagh National Park is 107 km away
Ireland’s National Parks within 100 km, and the nearest always, by direction and distance from the town’s edge; circle size shows each park’s area.
National ParkThe 5 km around the town
National Park
Glenveagh National Park
107 km north-west155 km²
None of Ireland’s six National Parks is within 100 km of Ballyhaise; the nearest is shown.
National Park boundaries: National Parks and Wildlife Service, generalised to 50 m (CC BY 4.0, © Government of Ireland), 2022. Distances from the town’s outline (CSO Small Areas).
Footpaths and woods
2 km of footpaths cross Ballyhaise
Footways that aren’t pavements, paths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, and mapped woods and forest, in the town and 1 km around it, each beside the county’s and Ireland’s typical town of 2,500+.
Footpaths
1.6 km
over 8.5 km² of town and the 1 km around it
Woodland
12%
about 1.1 km² of mapped woods
Registered trails
2
walking trails within 5 km
Km per km², town and 1 km around · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BallyhaiseCo. Cavan townsTypical Irish town
Footpaths0.2
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BallyhaiseCo. Cavan townsTypical Irish town
Woodland12%
0%50%100%
Ballyhaise has less footpath per km² than 98% of Irish towns and more woodland than 97% of Irish towns.
Footpaths and woods: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Woods are mapped cover, private and Coillte forests included.
Footpaths & trails
2 waymarked trails start near Ballyhaise
2 km of footpaths are mapped in Ballyhaise and the kilometre around it, 0.2 km for every square kilometre (the typical Irish town has 2.1).
Walking trail
Oakwood Forest Trail5.3 km
Annalee River Trail2.8 km
For a shorter walk, the Oakwood Forest Trail is 5.3 km, graded moderate. One cycling or paddling trail also starts within 5 km.
Trails: Sport Ireland National Trails Register (CC BY 4.0), registered trails within 5 km; footpaths: OpenStreetMap (ODbL). Coillte’s own forest trails and recreation sites aren’t included: Coillte’s terms limit its data to research or private study. Its trails on the National Trails Register are listed.
When to get out
The best walking months in Ballyhaise: May to July and September
Met Éireann’s 1991–2020 averages for the town’s 1 km square and the daylight at its latitude. Outlined months have long days, highs of 15 to 30 °C and little rain for the place.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 7.9 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 14.0 | 16.0 | 17.1 | 16.6 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.4 | 7.4 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 99 | 81 | 78 | 69 | 67 | 76 | 85 | 97 | 79 | 101 | 103 | 109 |
May is the driest month (67 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 7.4 hours of daylight in December, and 109 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. The climate in Ballyhaise →
Things to do
3 hills and peaks and 2 playgrounds
Mapped on OpenStreetMap in the town and 2 km around it; each count per resident beside Irish towns’ typical town of 2,500+. Beaches are on the coast’s list, from the EPA.
The highest named top on the map is Unshinagh, at 101 m, 1.2 km from town.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 3
Unshinagh101 m · 1.2 km from town
DirectionsDrumcalpin155 m · 1.5 km from town
DirectionsCorgarve88 m · 1.6 km from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 2
Plus 2 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Unnamed places are counted, not listed.
Gardens & nature
A garden or nature site to visit near Ballyhaise
Gardens, national parks, nature sites and islands within 15 km of the town’s edge, each with its own page.
Corravahan House & GardensGarden · 3.7 km from town
Its pagePlaces to visit: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0), OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.
Next door
Next to Ballyhaise
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 20 km, coloured by the share of the land within 5 km protected for nature.
CavanBelturbetBallinaghCootehillClonesBallyconnellBallyhaise
Under 1%1–10%10–25%25–50%50%+
In Cootehill, 100% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park, more than here.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Green space nearby. The share of residents (CSO Small Areas, by where people live) within 400 m of a park, garden, common or playing field mapped on OpenStreetMap. Mapping is uneven: a town whose parks nobody has mapped looks greyer than it is.
- Protected areas. Land in a Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area or Natural Heritage Area within 5 km, overlaps counted once. Protected for nature doesn’t always mean open to walkers.
- Footpaths and hiking routes. Footways that aren’t pavements, paths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, in the town and 1 km around it, from OpenStreetMap. Trails are the registered ones within 5 km; a trail often follows mapped paths, so the two aren’t added.
- Woodland. Woods and forest as OpenStreetMap maps them, private and Coillte forests included: mapped cover, not access.
- No grade yet. Ireland’s grades don’t include the outdoors yet: these figures describe the town and stand beside the median Irish town.
Questions about the outdoors in Ballyhaise
What is the biggest park in Ballyhaise?
Ballyhaise Amenity Park, 0.8 ha (2 acres), just outside the built-up area. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is there protected countryside near Ballyhaise?
Yes: 4.3% of the land within 5 km is protected, across 2 sites. The nearest is Lough Oughter and Associated Loughs SAC, 0.5 km from the edge of town.
What are the best walks near Ballyhaise?
2 waymarked trails start within 5 km, including the Oakwood Forest Trail and Annalee River Trail.
How many people in Ballyhaise live near a park?
44% of residents live within 400 m, about a 5-minute walk, of a park or playing field; in the typical Irish town it is 92%.
When is the best time of year for walking in Ballyhaise?
On the town’s 1991–2020 averages and its daylight: May to July and September, when days are long, highs reach 15 °C and rain is light for the place.
Is Ballyhaise near a National Park?
The nearest of Ireland’s six National Parks is Glenveagh National Park, 107 km north-west of the town’s edge; it covers about 155 km².
What is there to do outdoors around Ballyhaise?
Within 2 km, OpenStreetMap maps 3 hills and peaks; the named ones are listed under Things to do, with directions.
Sources
Where Ballyhaise’s outdoors figures come from
- Parks, woods and paths. OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL): parks, woods and footpaths, Geofabrik extract, October 2026
- Protected sites. National Parks and Wildlife Service: designated sites (SAC, SPA, NHA), 2026
- Trails. Sport Ireland: National Trails Register, 2026
- Residents. CSO: Census 2022 Small Areas (residents)
- National Parks. National Parks and Wildlife Service: National Park boundaries, generalised to 50 m (CC BY 4.0), 2022
- Things to do. OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL): viewpoints, hills, waterfalls, nature reserves, picnic sites, playgrounds, campsites and waymarked walks, Geofabrik extract, October 2026
- Weather. Met Éireann: 1991–2020 averages (Copyright Met Éireann)
Protected sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service (CC BY 4.0). Trails: Sport Ireland National Trails Register (CC BY 4.0). Bathing water: EPA (CC BY 4.0). Parks, woods and paths: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Not on this page yet: Coillte’s forest trails (its terms) and bike routes.
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).