First pick
John O'Callaghan Park
Park or garden
5.4 ha1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
0.7 km north-westfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Seighean at English Wikipedia · Public domain79%near a park
Outdoors in Glanmire · parks, paths & countryside
Glanmire is more wooded than 9 in 10 Irish towns
Mapped woodland takes up 13% of Glanmire and the kilometre around it. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 79% of residents. 6.6% of the land within 5 km is protected for nature, the nearest site being Cork Harbour SPA.
Near a park
79%
of residents within 400 m
Typical Irish town: 92%
Green space
3.5 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical Irish town: 4.1 ha
Footpaths
31 km
1.7 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical Irish town: 2.1 km per km²
Protected for nature
6.6%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Cork Harbour SPA
Woodland
13%
of the town and 1 km around it
Typical Irish town: 2.7%
Character
What kind of outdoors neighbourhood is Glanmire?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Wooded country13% mapped woodland in and around town, more than 96% of Irish towns.Protected land nearbyCork Harbour SPA reaches the edge of Glanmire.
Glanmire’s strongest suit is its woods, followed by protected land close by.
Against other towns
How Glanmire 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 walk79%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
32out of 100
Public green space3.5 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
45out of 100
Footpaths1.7 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
46out of 100
Protected for nature6.6%of the land within 5 km
83out of 100
Woodland13%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
Glanmire has the 19th most footpaths per km² of 40 towns its size
The 40 Irish towns nearest in population (3,815 to 5,138 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Chapelizod (7.8 km per km²) to Charleville (0 km per km²).
Footpath, km per km²
Glanmire1.7
Towns its size1.4
Co. Cork towns1.8
Typical Irish town2.1
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Glanmire3.5
Towns its size4.9
Co. Cork towns4.3
Typical Irish town4.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Glanmire79%
Towns its size79%
Co. Cork towns90%
Typical Irish town92%
Against towns its size, Glanmire stands out most for path per km²: only 18 of the other 39 have more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 24 of the others do better.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | The sea | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chapelizod Dublin | 7.8 | 11% | 0% | – |
| 2 | Gurranebraher Cork | 7.4 | 1.6% | 0.5% | – |
| 3 | St Luke's Cork | 6 | 3.5% | 2.8% | – |
| 4 | Farranree Cork | 6 | 3% | 0.5% | – |
| 5 | Montenotte Cork | 5.5 | 5.6% | 3.5% | – |
| 6 | Newcastle Galway | 5.4 | 1.7% | 15% | 29% |
| 7 | Tramore Cork | 4.7 | 4.6% | 3.7% | – |
| 8 | Saggart Dublin | 4.6 | 2% | 0% | – |
| 9 | Woodquay and Nuns Island Galway | 4.5 | 0.7% | 14% | 32% |
| 10 | Dangan Galway | 4.3 | 3.9% | 18% | 21% |
| 11 | Mervue Galway | 4.3 | 3.6% | 11% | 25% |
| 12 | Bohernabreena Dublin | 4.3 | 2.9% | 5% | – |
| 13 | Tivoli Cork | 4 | 7% | 4.8% | – |
| 14 | Fair Hill Cork | 4 | 4.4% | 0.4% | – |
| 15 | Prospect and Newtown Pery Limerick | 3.6 | 1.5% | 9.9% | – |
| 16 | Poleberry Waterford | 2.4 | 0.6% | 7.2% | – |
| 17 | Castlegar Galway | 1.8 | 1.4% | 16% | 16% |
| 18 | Rathbane Limerick | 1.8 | 1.1% | 6% | – |
| 19 | Glanmire Cork | 1.7 | 13% | 6.6% | – |
| 20 | Kilcoole Wicklow | 1.5 | 4.3% | 5.8% | 37% |
| 21 | Glounthaune Cork | 1.2 | 8% | 6.1% | – |
| 22 | Athenry Galway | 1.2 | 1.2% | 0% | – |
| 23 | Lehenagh Cork | 1.2 | 2.5% | 0.3% | – |
| 24 | Newcastle Dublin | 1.1 | 0.9% | 0% | – |
| 25 | Grange Waterford | 1 | 0.8% | 5% | – |
| 26 | Castleblayney Monaghan | 1 | 3.8% | 0% | – |
| 27 | Kilcullen Kildare | 0.8 | 5.3% | 0% | – |
| 28 | Kill Kildare | 0.8 | 2.1% | 0% | – |
| 29 | Birr Offaly | 0.8 | 14% | 5.2% | – |
| 30 | Courtown Wexford | 0.6 | 8.6% | 0% | 37% |
| 31 | Claremorris Mayo | 0.4 | 7.1% | 0% | – |
| 32 | Macroom Cork | 0.4 | 4.9% | 3.9% | – |
| 33 | Duleek Meath | 0.4 | 0.1% | 1.3% | – |
| 34 | Cashel Tipperary | 0.4 | 1.8% | 1.4% | – |
| 35 | Listowel Kerry | 0.4 | 2.3% | 4.8% | – |
| 36 | Mountmellick Laois | 0.3 | 0.5% | 3.4% | – |
| 37 | Tullow Carlow | 0.3 | 0.4% | 1.7% | – |
| 38 | Clonakilty Cork | 0.3 | 1.8% | 3.3% | 7.1% |
| 39 | Carrick-On-Shannon Leitrim | 0.2 | 2% | 0% | – |
| 40 | Charleville Cork | 0 | 0.3% | 0.2% | – |
The map
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Glanmire’s neighbourhood.
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 Glanmire
The biggest is John O'Callaghan Park, 5.4 ha (13 acres).
Vienna Woods
Wood or forest · 190 m outside town
5.7 ha
1.7 km south-westfrom 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
8 in 10 Glanmire 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 (79%)Further (21%)
Glanmire79%
Co. Cork towns90%
Typical Irish town92%
About 900 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
Protected areas
Protected sites cover 6.6% of the land within 5 km of Glanmire
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 Glanmire6.8%
Within 5 km6.6%
Co. Cork towns1.5%
Typical Irish town1.8%
2 protected sites lie within 5 km of Glanmire. Proposed Natural Heritage Areas cover 6.6% 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 75 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
75 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
31 km of footpaths cross Glanmire
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
31 km
over 17.7 km² of town and the 1 km around it
Woodland
13%
about 2.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km², town and 1 km around · mapped on OpenStreetMap
GlanmireCo. Cork townsTypical Irish town
Footpaths1.7
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
GlanmireCo. Cork townsTypical Irish town
Woodland13%
0%50%100%
Glanmire has less footpath per km² than 54% 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
Footpaths in and around Glanmire
31 km of footpaths are mapped in Glanmire and the kilometre around it, 1.7 km for every square kilometre (the typical Irish town has 2.1).
No waymarked trail starts within 5 km of Glanmire; its footpaths are counted above.
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 Glanmire: 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) | 8.2 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.6 | 16.7 | 16.3 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.8 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 120 | 91 | 86 | 81 | 75 | 75 | 78 | 88 | 84 | 122 | 120 | 128 |
June is the driest month (75 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7.8 hours of daylight in December, and 128 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. The climate in Glanmire →
Things to do
10 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.
Per resident, playgrounds stand out most: Glanmire has 1.7× as many as the typical Irish town.
Every named place, with directions
Picnic sites 2
Plus 2 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 10
Monkey Maze0.0 km from town
DirectionsGlanmire Playground0.2 km from town
DirectionsMarina Park Playground2.0 km from town
DirectionsPlus 7 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Plus 1 campsite without a name on the map.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Unnamed places are counted, not listed.
Next door
Next to Glanmire
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 20 km, coloured by the share of the land within 5 km protected for nature.
RiverstownBallyvolaneGlounthauneTivoliMahonMayfieldGlanmire
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glanmire | 79% | 3.5 | 1.7 | 6.6% |
| Riverstown 1.6 km | 70% | 3.7 | 0.8 | 2.9% |
| Ballyvolane 2.8 km | 92% | 8.2 | 1.6 | 2.8% |
| Glounthaune 3.3 km | 45% | 8.7 | 1.2 | 6.1% |
| Tivoli 3.5 km | 88% | 10.5 | 4.0 | 4.8% |
| Mahon 3.7 km | 96% | 5.6 | 3.6 | 5.3% |
| Mayfield 3.8 km | 100% | 11.6 | 4.7 | 3.3% |
In Mayfield, 100% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park, more than here. Ballyvolane, Glounthaune and Tivoli have at least twice Glanmire’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 Glanmire
What is the biggest park in Glanmire?
John O'Callaghan Park, 5.4 ha (13 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the neighbourhood or within 400 m of it.
Is there protected countryside near Glanmire?
Yes: 6.6% of the land within 5 km is protected, across 2 sites. Cork Harbour SPA reaches Glanmire.
How many people in Glanmire live near a park?
79% 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 Glanmire?
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 Glanmire near a National Park?
The nearest of Ireland’s six National Parks is Killarney National Park, 75 km west of the town’s edge; it covers about 104 km².
What is there to do outdoors around Glanmire?
Within 2 km, OpenStreetMap maps 2 picnic sites; the named ones are listed under Things to do, with directions.
Sources
Where Glanmire’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).