First pick
Erica's Fairy Forest
Wood or forest · 190 m outside town
70 ha1.1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.1 km of path
2.2 km northfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0100%near a park
Outdoors in Cootehill · parks, paths & countryside
Cootehill is more wooded than 9 in 10 Irish towns
Mapped woodland takes up 15% of Cootehill and the kilometre around it. 100% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. 4 waymarked trails start within 5 km of Cootehill, among them the Dromore Trail and Temple Loop.
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical Irish town: 92%
Green space
3.4 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical Irish town: 4.1 ha
Footpaths
5 km
0.4 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical Irish town: 2.1 km per km²
Woodland
15%
of the town and 1 km around it
Typical Irish town: 2.7%
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Cootehill?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Wooded country15% mapped woodland in and around town, more than 99% of Irish towns.A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Few mapped footpaths0.4 km of path per km²; the typical Irish town has 2.1.
Cootehill’s strongest suit is its woods, followed by parks close to every home. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Against other towns
How Cootehill 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 walk100%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
83out of 100
Public green space3.4 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
44out of 100
Footpaths0.4 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
10out of 100
Protected for nature0%of the land within 5 km
11out of 100
Woodland15%of the town and 1 km around it, as mapped
99out 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
Cootehill has the 14th fewest footpaths per km² of 40 towns its size
The 40 Irish towns nearest in population (1,856 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
Cootehill0.4
Towns its size0.7
Co. Cavan towns0.6
Typical Irish town2.1
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Cootehill3.4
Towns its size3.8
Co. Cavan towns2.2
Typical Irish town4.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Cootehill100%
Towns its size87%
Co. Cavan towns80%
Typical Irish town92%
Against towns its size, Cootehill stands out most for homes near a park: none of the other 39 has more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 26 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 | Cootehill Cavan | 0.4 | 15% | 0% | – |
| 28 | Kinnegad Westmeath | 0.3 | 4.5% | 4.5% | – |
| 29 | Donegal Donegal | 0.3 | 4% | 4.1% | 12% |
| 30 | Boyle Roscommon | 0.3 | 3.2% | 0% | – |
| 31 | Bailieborough Cavan | 0.3 | 10% | 0% | – |
| 32 | Castleisland Kerry | 0.3 | 1.7% | 12% | – |
| 33 | Kanturk Cork | 0.3 | 0% | 5.1% | – |
| 34 | Baltinglass Wicklow | 0.2 | 4.9% | 0.5% | – |
| 35 | Ballyhaunis Mayo | 0.2 | 2.8% | 3.4% | – |
| 36 | Kilrush Clare | 0.2 | 9.8% | 37% | – |
| 37 | Ballyjamesduff Cavan | 0.2 | 7.6% | 0% | – |
| 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 Cootehill’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 Cootehill
The biggest is Erica's Fairy Forest, 70 ha (174 acres).
All 4 named parks and woods by size: 143 ha (354 acres) and 2 km of path
Parks & gardens 0.6 haWoods 143 ha
The two biggest, Erica's Fairy Forest and Killycramph Wood, are 85% of the named green space.
Killycramph Wood
Wood or forest
51 ha0.2 km of path
1.3 km north-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Dawson Grove Demesne
Wood or forest · 180 m outside town
21 ha0.5 km of path
2.3 km northfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Halton's Amenity Park
Park or garden · 110 m outside town
0.6 ha0.3 km of path
1.4 km northfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
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
Everyone in Cootehill lives 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 (100%)Further (0%)
Cootehill100%
Co. Cavan towns80%
Typical Irish town92%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
Protected areas
No protected site lies within 5 km of Cootehill
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.
No site protected for nature lies within 5 km of Cootehill.
National Parks
Wicklow Mountains National Park is 103 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
Wicklow Mountains National Park
103 km south-east223 km²
None of Ireland’s six National Parks is within 100 km of Cootehill; 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
5 km of footpaths cross Cootehill
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
5.1 km
over 12.8 km² of town and the 1 km around it
Woodland
15%
about 2 km² of mapped woods
Registered trails
4
walking trails within 5 km
Km per km², town and 1 km around · mapped on OpenStreetMap
CootehillCo. Cavan townsTypical Irish town
Footpaths0.4
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
CootehillCo. Cavan townsTypical Irish town
Woodland15%
0%50%100%
Cootehill has less footpath per km² than 90% of Irish towns and more woodland than 99% of Irish towns.
Footpaths and woods: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Woods are mapped cover, private and Coillte forests included.
Footpaths & trails
4 waymarked trails start near Cootehill
5 km of footpaths are mapped in Cootehill and the kilometre around it, 0.4 km for every square kilometre (the typical Irish town has 2.1).
Walking trail
Dromore Trail2.7 km
Temple Loop5.7 km
Deer Park Loop5.5 km
Fairfield Loop2.3 km
For a shorter walk, the Temple Loop is 5.7 km, graded easy.
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 Cootehill: 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) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 96 | 81 | 75 | 68 | 68 | 74 | 82 | 95 | 76 | 102 | 103 | 107 |
April is the driest month (68 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 7.4 hours of daylight in December, and 107 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. The climate in Cootehill →
Things to do
7 hills and peaks and 3 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 Lislea, at 118 m, 0.4 km from town.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 7
Lislea118 m · 0.4 km from town
DirectionsDromore Hill109 m · 0.9 km from town
DirectionsBellamont Forest117 m · 1.2 km from town
DirectionsDrumrooghill158 m · 1.2 km from town
DirectionsCabragh116 m · 1.4 km from town
DirectionsFlagpole Hill1.5 km from town
DirectionsKnockateane151 m · 1.7 km from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 3
Plus 3 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Unnamed places are counted, not listed.
Next door
Next to Cootehill
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 20 km, coloured by the share of the land within 5 km protected for nature.
BallybayClonesBailieboroughCootehill
Under 1%1–10%10–25%25–50%50%+
| Town | Near a park | Green space, ha per 1,000 | Paths (km/km²) | Protected within 5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cootehill | 100% | 3.4 | 0.4 | 0% |
| Ballybay 13 km | 100% | 2.8 | 0.3 | 0% |
| Clones 16 km | 100% | 3.7 | 0.5 | 0.4% |
| Bailieborough 19 km | 55% | 1.9 | 0.3 | 0% |
None of the neighbours has many more of its people near a park than Cootehill.
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 Cootehill
What is the biggest park in Cootehill?
Halton's Amenity Park, 0.6 ha (1 acres), just outside the built-up area. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
What are the best walks near Cootehill?
4 waymarked trails start within 5 km, including the Dromore Trail, Temple Loop and Deer Park Loop.
How many people in Cootehill live near a park?
100% 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 Cootehill?
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 Cootehill near a National Park?
The nearest of Ireland’s six National Parks is Wicklow Mountains National Park, 103 km south-east of the town’s edge; it covers about 223 km².
What is there to do outdoors around Cootehill?
Within 2 km, OpenStreetMap maps 7 hills and peaks; the named ones are listed under Things to do, with directions.
Sources
Where Cootehill’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).