First pick
INDIEPENDENCE Music & Artis Festival
Park or garden
20 ha
1.6 km northfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Neil Theasby · CC BY-SA 2.056%near a park
Outdoors in Mitchelstown · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Mitchelstown
A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 56% of residents. 2 waymarked trails start within 5 km of Mitchelstown, among them the Combaun Loop and Benard Loop. 5 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 0.3 for every square kilometre.
Near a park
56%
of residents within 400 m
Typical Irish town: 92%
Green space
7.8 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical Irish town: 4.1 ha
Footpaths
5 km
0.3 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical Irish town: 2.1 km per km²
Against other towns
How Mitchelstown 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 walk56%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
7out of 100
Public green space7.8 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
73out of 100
Footpaths0.3 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
9out of 100
Protected for nature0%of the land within 5 km
11out of 100
Woodland0%of the town and 1 km around it, as mapped
0out 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
Mitchelstown has the 4th fewest footpaths per km² of 40 towns its size
The 40 Irish towns nearest in population (3,211 to 4,449 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Shandon (7.3 km per km²) to Charleville (0 km per km²).
Footpath, km per km²
Mitchelstown0.3
Towns its size1.2
Co. Cork towns1.8
Typical Irish town2.1
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Mitchelstown7.8
Towns its size4.5
Co. Cork towns4.3
Typical Irish town4.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Mitchelstown56%
Towns its size84%
Co. Cork towns90%
Typical Irish town92%
Against towns its size, Mitchelstown stands out most for park space per resident: only 10 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 | Shandon Cork | 7.3 | 1.9% | 0.9% | – |
| 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 | Mervue Galway | 4.3 | 3.6% | 11% | 25% |
| 10 | Tivoli Cork | 4 | 7% | 4.8% | – |
| 11 | Prospect and Newtown Pery Limerick | 3.6 | 1.5% | 9.9% | – |
| 12 | Limerick City Centre Limerick | 3.5 | 1% | 11% | – |
| 13 | Rahoon Galway | 2.3 | 2.3% | 27% | 20% |
| 14 | Annacotty Limerick | 2 | 2% | 6.2% | – |
| 15 | Castlegar Galway | 1.8 | 1.4% | 16% | 16% |
| 16 | Rathbane Limerick | 1.8 | 1.1% | 6% | – |
| 17 | Ballinacurra Limerick | 1.8 | 1.4% | 11% | – |
| 18 | Westbury Clare | 1.7 | 3.3% | 9.6% | – |
| 19 | Crosshaven Cork | 1.2 | 8.9% | 0.4% | 44% |
| 20 | Rathnew Wicklow | 1.2 | 1.3% | 3.9% | 17% |
| 21 | Cleaboy Waterford | 1.2 | 0% | 5.8% | – |
| 22 | Lehenagh Cork | 1.2 | 2.5% | 0.3% | – |
| 23 | Virginia Cavan | 1.1 | 18% | 0.2% | – |
| 24 | Enfield Meath | 1.1 | 3.9% | 0% | – |
| 25 | Grange Waterford | 1 | 0.8% | 5% | – |
| 26 | Cahir Tipperary | 1 | 7.5% | 3.4% | – |
| 27 | Castleblayney Monaghan | 1 | 3.8% | 0% | – |
| 28 | Riverstown Cork | 0.8 | 14% | 2.9% | – |
| 29 | Kilcullen Kildare | 0.8 | 5.3% | 0% | – |
| 30 | Kill Kildare | 0.8 | 2.1% | 0% | – |
| 31 | Tower Cork | 0.7 | 13% | 0% | – |
| 32 | Newtownmountkennedy Wicklow | 0.6 | 12% | 4.9% | 6.2% |
| 33 | Courtown Wexford | 0.6 | 8.6% | 0% | 37% |
| 34 | Rathangan Kildare | 0.5 | 4.5% | 0% | – |
| 35 | Claremorris Mayo | 0.4 | 7.1% | 0% | – |
| 36 | Macroom Cork | 0.4 | 4.9% | 3.9% | – |
| 37 | Mitchelstown Cork | 0.3 | 0% | 0% | – |
| 38 | Stamullen Meath | 0.3 | 1.7% | 0.5% | 12% |
| 39 | Clara Offaly | 0.2 | 6.1% | 6.4% | – |
| 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 Mitchelstown’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 Mitchelstown
The biggest is INDIEPENDENCE Music & Artis Festival, 20 ha (51 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 Mitchelstown 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 (56%)Further (44%)
Mitchelstown56%
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
No protected site lies within 5 km of Mitchelstown
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 Mitchelstown.
National Parks
Killarney National Park is 86 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
86 km west104 km²
National Park
Burren National Park
90 km north-west21 km²
2 of Ireland’s six National Parks are within 100 km of Mitchelstown.
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 Mitchelstown
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
4.9 km
over 14.3 km² of town and the 1 km around it
Woodland
0%
of the town and 1 km around it
Registered trails
2
walking trails within 5 km
Km per km², town and 1 km around · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MitchelstownCo. Cork townsTypical Irish town
Footpaths0.3
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MitchelstownCo. Cork townsTypical Irish town
Woodland0%
0%50%100%
Mitchelstown has less footpath per km² than 91% of Irish towns and less woodland than 100% 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 Mitchelstown
5 km of footpaths are mapped in Mitchelstown and the kilometre around it, 0.3 km for every square kilometre (the typical Irish town has 2.1).
Walking trail
Combaun Loop11.0 km
Benard Loop12.8 km
For a shorter walk, the Combaun Loop is 11.0 km, graded moderate.
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.
History
2 historic parks, gardens and demesnes on the record in Mitchelstown
Parks, gardens, walled gardens and demesne walls in the town on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, each with its record.
ParkPark, King's Square, Mitchelstownfrom 1775Regional rating (NIAH)
Walled gardenWalled garden, Mitchelstownfrom 1790Regional rating (NIAH)
The oldest dated is Park, King's Square, Mitchelstown, from 1775.
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0).
When to get out
The best walking months in Mitchelstown: 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 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.7 | 16.7 | 16.3 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 115 | 91 | 85 | 77 | 74 | 77 | 78 | 91 | 86 | 116 | 123 | 119 |
May is the driest month (74 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7.7 hours of daylight in December, and 123 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. The climate in Mitchelstown →
Things to do
1 playground
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
Picnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 1
Plus 1 playground without a name on the map.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Unnamed places are counted, not listed.
Next door
Next to Mitchelstown
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 20 km, coloured by the share of the land within 5 km protected for nature.
KilworthFermoyMitchelstown
Under 1%1–10%10–25%25–50%50%+
In Kilworth, 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 Mitchelstown
What is the biggest park in Mitchelstown?
INDIEPENDENCE Music & Artis Festival, 20 ha (51 acres). Castle Gardens (2.8 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
What are the best walks near Mitchelstown?
2 waymarked trails start within 5 km, including the Combaun Loop and Benard Loop.
How many people in Mitchelstown live near a park?
56% 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 Mitchelstown?
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 Mitchelstown near a National Park?
The nearest of Ireland’s six National Parks is Killarney National Park, 86 km west of the town’s edge; it covers about 104 km². One more is within 100 km.
What is there to do outdoors around Mitchelstown?
Within 2 km, OpenStreetMap maps 1 picnic site; the named ones are listed under Things to do, with directions.
Which parks in Mitchelstown are historic?
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage records 2 historic parks, gardens and demesnes in the town, among them Park, King's Square, Mitchelstown and Walled garden, Mitchelstown.
Sources
Where Mitchelstown’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
- Historic parks and gardens. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC BY 4.0)
- 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).