First pick
Castle Lake Walk
Park or garden
1.5 ha0.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Carrigtwohill
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Robert Ashby · CC BY-SA 2.060%near a park
Outdoors in Carrigtwohill · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Carrigtwohill
60% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Protected sites cover 12% of the land within 5 km; the nearest is Cork Harbour SPA. Parks and playing fields in Carrigtwohill add up to 2.7 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical Irish town has 4.1.
Near a park
60%
of residents within 400 m
Typical Irish town: 92%
Green space
2.7 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical Irish town: 4.1 ha
Footpaths
26 km
1.8 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical Irish town: 2.1 km per km²
Protected for nature
12%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Cork Harbour SPA
Woodland
5.1%
of the town and 1 km around it
Typical Irish town: 2.7%
Against other towns
How Carrigtwohill 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 walk60%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
11out of 100
Public green space2.7 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
36out of 100
Footpaths1.8 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
46out of 100
Protected for nature12%of the land within 5 km
92out of 100
Woodland5.1%of the town and 1 km around it, as mapped
76out 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
Carrigtwohill has the 20th fewest footpaths per km² of 40 towns its size
The 40 Irish towns nearest in population (5,000 to 6,258 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From St Stephen's Green (7.4 km per km²) to Clonakilty (0.3 km per km²).
Footpath, km per km²
Carrigtwohill1.8
Towns its size1.8
Co. Cork towns1.8
Typical Irish town2.1
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Carrigtwohill2.7
Towns its size4.4
Co. Cork towns4.3
Typical Irish town4.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Carrigtwohill60%
Towns its size89%
Co. Cork towns90%
Typical Irish town92%
Carrigtwohill falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 28 of the 39 others do better.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | The sea | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St Stephen's Green Dublin | 7.4 | 0.9% | 0.3% | 11% |
| 2 | Portobello Dublin | 7.2 | 1.2% | 0.1% | 8.8% |
| 3 | Gillabbey Cork | 7.1 | 2.6% | 0.5% | – |
| 4 | Glasheen Cork | 6.4 | 2.3% | 0.5% | – |
| 5 | Ballyboden Dublin | 5.9 | 4.3% | 0.5% | – |
| 6 | The Glen Cork | 5.7 | 4% | 1.8% | – |
| 7 | Edmondstown Dublin | 5.1 | 7.5% | 4.5% | – |
| 8 | Ballinlough Cork | 4.9 | 3.2% | 3.8% | – |
| 9 | Rathgar Dublin | 4.8 | 3.5% | 0.1% | – |
| 10 | Knocknaheeny Cork | 4.7 | 2.4% | 0.2% | – |
| 11 | Knockrea Cork | 4.7 | 3.1% | 3.7% | – |
| 12 | Inchicore Dublin | 4.5 | 3.9% | 0% | – |
| 13 | Ayrfield Dublin | 3.8 | 1.8% | 5.3% | 19% |
| 14 | Garryowen Limerick | 3.4 | 0.5% | 9.6% | – |
| 15 | Salthill Galway | 3.3 | 1% | 15% | 46% |
| 16 | Harmonstown Dublin | 3.2 | 3.8% | 5.3% | 23% |
| 17 | Galvone Limerick | 2.9 | 0.7% | 8.3% | – |
| 18 | Dock Limerick | 2.5 | 1.3% | 12% | – |
| 19 | Sutton Dublin | 2.5 | 0.7% | 12% | 48% |
| 20 | Lisduggan Waterford | 1.8 | 0% | 5.8% | – |
| 21 | Carrigtwohill Cork | 1.8 | 5.1% | 12% | – |
| 22 | Ballinfoile and Terryland Galway | 1.7 | 2.1% | 22% | 13% |
| 23 | Rathcoole Dublin | 1.6 | 2.4% | 0% | – |
| 24 | Blessington Wicklow | 1.4 | 10% | 1.9% | – |
| 25 | Glounthaune Cork | 1.2 | 8% | 6.1% | – |
| 26 | Passage West-Monkstown Cork | 1.2 | 3.5% | 10% | 12% |
| 27 | Inishkenny Cork | 1.1 | 4.2% | 0.2% | – |
| 28 | Ballybeg Waterford | 1 | 1.2% | 4.1% | – |
| 29 | Ardee Louth | 0.9 | 0.7% | 0.8% | – |
| 30 | Kinsale Cork | 0.9 | 1.3% | 0% | 21% |
| 31 | Ferrybank Kilkenny | 0.8 | 4.1% | 6.6% | – |
| 32 | Monasterevin Kildare | 0.6 | 16% | 2% | – |
| 33 | Carrick-on-Suir Tipperary | 0.5 | 9.9% | 4% | – |
| 34 | Ballybofey-Stranorlar Donegal | 0.4 | 7.7% | 2.3% | – |
| 35 | Carrickmacross Monaghan | 0.3 | 5.5% | 0% | – |
| 36 | Tipperary Tipperary | 0.3 | 0.7% | 0.8% | – |
| 37 | Tullow Carlow | 0.3 | 0.4% | 1.7% | – |
| 38 | Roscrea Tipperary | 0.3 | 3.4% | 7.9% | – |
| 39 | Oranmore Galway | 0.3 | 2% | 5.2% | 13% |
| 40 | Clonakilty Cork | 0.3 | 1.8% | 3.3% | 7.1% |
The map
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Carrigtwohill’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 Carrigtwohill
The biggest is Castle Lake Walk, 1.5 ha (4 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
6 in 10 Carrigtwohill 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 (60%)Further (40%)
Carrigtwohill60%
Co. Cork towns90%
Typical Irish town92%
About 2,200 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
Protected areas
12% of the land around Carrigtwohill 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 Carrigtwohill0%
Within 5 km12%
Co. Cork towns1.5%
Typical Irish town1.8%
2 protected sites lie within 5 km of Carrigtwohill. Proposed Natural Heritage Areas cover 12% 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
Killarney National Park is 82 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
Killarney National Park
82 km west104 km²
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
26 km of footpaths cross Carrigtwohill
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
26 km
over 15 km² of town and the 1 km around it
Woodland
5.1%
about 0.8 km² of mapped woods
Registered trails
1
walking trails within 5 km
Km per km², town and 1 km around · mapped on OpenStreetMap
CarrigtwohillCo. Cork townsTypical Irish town
Footpaths1.8
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
CarrigtwohillCo. Cork townsTypical Irish town
Woodland5.1%
0%50%100%
Carrigtwohill has less footpath per km² than 54% of Irish towns and more woodland than 76% of Irish towns.
Footpaths and woods: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Woods are mapped cover, private and Coillte forests included.
Footpaths & trails
One waymarked trail starts near Carrigtwohill
26 km of footpaths are mapped in Carrigtwohill and the kilometre around it, 1.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical Irish town has 2.1).
Greenway
Midleton to Youghal Greenway8.0 km
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 Carrigtwohill: May to 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) | 8.3 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.6 | 16.7 | 16.2 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.8 |
| High (°C) | 10 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 113 | 86 | 82 | 76 | 73 | 73 | 76 | 86 | 81 | 117 | 114 | 120 |
June is the driest month (73 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7.8 hours of daylight in December, and 120 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. The climate in Carrigtwohill →
Things to do
4 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.
Every named place, with directions
Playgrounds 4
Plus 4 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Jasmine Villa Caravan and Camping0.4 km from town
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Unnamed places are counted, not listed.
Gardens & nature
2 gardens and nature sites to visit near Carrigtwohill
Gardens, national parks, nature sites and islands within 15 km of the town’s edge, each with its own page.
Fota Arboretum & GardensGarden · 1.7 km from town
Its pageFota House Arboretum & GardensGarden · 1.7 km from town
Its pagePlaces to visit: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0), OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.
Next door
Next to Carrigtwohill
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 20 km, coloured by the share of the land within 5 km protected for nature.
GlounthauneMidletonCobhPassage West-MonkstownGlanmireAghada-RostellanCarrigtwohill
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carrigtwohill | 60% | 2.7 | 1.8 | 12% |
| Glounthaune 5.5 km | 45% | 8.7 | 1.2 | 6.1% |
| Midleton 5.9 km | 59% | 1.5 | 1.6 | 4.5% |
| Cobh 7.3 km | 83% | 0.8 | 0.8 | 13% |
| Passage West-Monkstown 7.5 km | 70% | 1.4 | 1.2 | 10% |
| Glanmire 8.7 km | 79% | 3.5 | 1.7 | 6.6% |
| Aghada-Rostellan 9.0 km | 58% | 66.3 | 0.4 | 6.2% |
In Cobh, 83% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park, more than here. Glounthaune and Aghada-Rostellan have at least twice Carrigtwohill’s green space per resident.
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 Carrigtwohill
What is the biggest park in Carrigtwohill?
Castle Lake Walk, 1.5 ha (4 acres). Carrigtwohill Community Garden (0.2 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is there protected countryside near Carrigtwohill?
Yes: 12% of the land within 5 km is protected, across 2 sites. The nearest is Cork Harbour SPA, 0.0 km from the edge of town.
What are the best walks near Carrigtwohill?
One waymarked trail starts within 5 km: the Midleton to Youghal Greenway.
How many people in Carrigtwohill live near a park?
60% 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 Carrigtwohill?
On the town’s 1991–2020 averages and its daylight: May to September, when days are long, highs reach 15 °C and rain is light for the place.
Is Carrigtwohill near a National Park?
The nearest of Ireland’s six National Parks is Killarney National Park, 82 km west of the town’s edge; it covers about 104 km².
Sources
Where Carrigtwohill’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).