First pick
Leghanamore Park
Park or garden
5.4 ha
Centralin the middle of Lehenagh
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Jack Barber · CC BY-SA 2.060%near a park
Outdoors in Lehenagh · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Lehenagh
60% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Footpaths add up to 31 km in the neighbourhood and the kilometre around it, 1.2 for every square kilometre. There are 4.2 ha of parks and playing fields for every 1,000 people in Lehenagh, against 4.1 in the typical Irish town.
Near a park
60%
of residents within 400 m
Typical Irish town: 92%
Green space
4.2 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical Irish town: 4.1 ha
Footpaths
31 km
1.2 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical Irish town: 2.1 km per km²
Protected for nature
0.3%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Cork Harbour SPA
Woodland
2.5%
of the town and 1 km around it
Typical Irish town: 2.7%
Character
What kind of outdoors neighbourhood is Lehenagh?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Hills with a view4 mapped viewpoints, about 26× as many per resident as the typical Irish town.Parks can be a walk away40% of residents live more than 400 m from a park or playing field.
Lehenagh’s strongest suit is its views. Where it falls short is how far some homes are from a park.
Against other towns
How Lehenagh 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 space4.2 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
52out of 100
Footpaths1.2 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
34out of 100
Protected for nature0.3%of the land within 5 km
33out of 100
Woodland2.5%of the town and 1 km around it, as mapped
47out 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
Lehenagh has the 18th fewest footpaths per km² of 40 towns its size
The 40 Irish towns nearest in population (3,632 to 4,803 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Gurranebraher (7.4 km per km²) to Charleville (0 km per km²).
Footpath, km per km²
Lehenagh1.2
Towns its size1.6
Co. Cork towns1.8
Typical Irish town2.1
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Lehenagh4.2
Towns its size4.6
Co. Cork towns4.3
Typical Irish town4.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Lehenagh60%
Towns its size80%
Co. Cork towns90%
Typical Irish town92%
Lehenagh falls furthest behind on path per km², where 22 of the 39 others do better.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | The sea | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gurranebraher Cork | 7.4 | 1.6% | 0.5% | – |
| 2 | Ballyfermot Dublin | 6.8 | 8.7% | 0% | – |
| 3 | Cork City Centre Cork | 6.7 | 1.5% | 1.8% | – |
| 4 | St Luke's Cork | 6 | 3.5% | 2.8% | – |
| 5 | Farranree Cork | 6 | 3% | 0.5% | – |
| 6 | Montenotte Cork | 5.5 | 5.6% | 3.5% | – |
| 7 | Newcastle Galway | 5.4 | 1.7% | 15% | 29% |
| 8 | Shanakiel Cork | 5.3 | 5.7% | 0.1% | – |
| 9 | Tramore Cork | 4.7 | 4.6% | 3.7% | – |
| 10 | Saggart Dublin | 4.6 | 2% | 0% | – |
| 11 | Dangan Galway | 4.3 | 3.9% | 18% | 21% |
| 12 | Mervue Galway | 4.3 | 3.6% | 11% | 25% |
| 13 | Bohernabreena Dublin | 4.3 | 2.9% | 5% | – |
| 14 | Tivoli Cork | 4 | 7% | 4.8% | – |
| 15 | Prospect and Newtown Pery Limerick | 3.6 | 1.5% | 9.9% | – |
| 16 | Castlegar Galway | 1.8 | 1.4% | 16% | 16% |
| 17 | Rathbane Limerick | 1.8 | 1.1% | 6% | – |
| 18 | Ballinacurra Limerick | 1.8 | 1.4% | 11% | – |
| 19 | Glanmire Cork | 1.7 | 13% | 6.6% | – |
| 20 | Westbury Clare | 1.7 | 3.3% | 9.6% | – |
| 21 | Kilcoole Wicklow | 1.5 | 4.3% | 5.8% | 37% |
| 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 | Enfield Meath | 1.1 | 3.9% | 0% | – |
| 26 | Grange Waterford | 1 | 0.8% | 5% | – |
| 27 | Cahir Tipperary | 1 | 7.5% | 3.4% | – |
| 28 | Castleblayney Monaghan | 1 | 3.8% | 0% | – |
| 29 | Riverstown Cork | 0.8 | 14% | 2.9% | – |
| 30 | Kilcullen Kildare | 0.8 | 5.3% | 0% | – |
| 31 | Kill Kildare | 0.8 | 2.1% | 0% | – |
| 32 | Birr Offaly | 0.8 | 14% | 5.2% | – |
| 33 | Courtown Wexford | 0.6 | 8.6% | 0% | 37% |
| 34 | Claremorris Mayo | 0.4 | 7.1% | 0% | – |
| 35 | Macroom Cork | 0.4 | 4.9% | 3.9% | – |
| 36 | Listowel Kerry | 0.4 | 2.3% | 4.8% | – |
| 37 | Mitchelstown Cork | 0.3 | 0% | 0% | – |
| 38 | Stamullen Meath | 0.3 | 1.7% | 0.5% | 12% |
| 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 Lehenagh’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 Lehenagh
The biggest is Leghanamore Park, 5.4 ha (13 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 Lehenagh 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%)
Lehenagh60%
Co. Cork towns90%
Typical Irish town92%
About 1,700 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
Protected areas
Cork Harbour SPA is the nearest protected area, 3.4 km away
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 Lehenagh0%
Within 5 km0.3%
Co. Cork towns1.5%
Typical Irish town1.8%
One protected site lies within 5 km of Lehenagh. Ireland’s National Parks have a block of their own on this page; much of their land also lies inside these sites.
Cork Harbour SPASpecial Protection Area (birds) · 27 km² · 3.4 km from the edge
NPWS pageProtected 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 68 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
68 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 Lehenagh
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 27.2 km² of town and the 1 km around it
Woodland
2.5%
about 0.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km², town and 1 km around · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LehenaghCo. Cork townsTypical Irish town
Footpaths1.2
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LehenaghCo. Cork townsTypical Irish town
Woodland2.5%
0%50%100%
Lehenagh has less footpath per km² than 66% of Irish towns and less woodland than 53% 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 Lehenagh
31 km of footpaths are mapped in Lehenagh and the kilometre around it, 1.2 km for every square kilometre (the typical Irish town has 2.1).
No waymarked trail starts within 5 km of Lehenagh; 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 Lehenagh: 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) | 9 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 125 | 92 | 86 | 80 | 74 | 77 | 80 | 87 | 86 | 125 | 123 | 130 |
May is the driest month (74 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7.8 hours of daylight in December, and 130 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. The climate in Lehenagh →
Things to do
4 viewpoints and 7 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.
4Viewpoints26.3× the typical Irish town, per resident7Playgroundsabout the typical Irish town, per resident
Per resident, viewpoints stand out most: Lehenagh has 26.3× as many as the typical Irish town.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 4
viaduct city view1.6 km from town
DirectionsCity View Summit1.7 km from town
DirectionsVernon Mount View1.7 km from town
DirectionsBallincollig View2.0 km from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 7
Plus 7 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 Lehenagh
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 20 km, coloured by the share of the land within 5 km protected for nature.
InishkennyTogherFrankfield and GrangeTurner's CrossGlasheenBishopstownLehenagh
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lehenagh | 60% | 4.2 | 1.2 | 0.3% |
| Inishkenny 1.5 km | 69% | 4.1 | 1.1 | 0.2% |
| Togher 1.6 km | 100% | 9.6 | 5.0 | 0.5% |
| Frankfield and Grange 2.1 km | 61% | 12.8 | 2.1 | 2.1% |
| Turner's Cross 2.3 km | 100% | 11.5 | 5.3 | 1.3% |
| Glasheen 2.5 km | 100% | 5.1 | 6.4 | 0.5% |
| Bishopstown 2.9 km | 100% | 6.2 | 3.2 | 0.2% |
In Togher, 100% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park, more than here. Togher, Frankfield and Grange and Turner's Cross have at least twice Lehenagh’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 Lehenagh
What is the biggest park in Lehenagh?
Leghanamore 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 Lehenagh?
One protected site lies within 5 km, though it covers under 1% of the land. The nearest is Cork Harbour SPA, 3.4 km from the edge of town.
How many people in Lehenagh 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 Lehenagh?
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 Lehenagh near a National Park?
The nearest of Ireland’s six National Parks is Killarney National Park, 68 km west of the town’s edge; it covers about 104 km².
What is there to do outdoors around Lehenagh?
Within 2 km, OpenStreetMap maps 4 viewpoints; the named ones are listed under Things to do, with directions.
Sources
Where Lehenagh’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).