First pick
Kilnamanagh Wood
Wood or forest · 330 m outside town
5.3 ha
1.1 km eastfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
Outdoors in Timoleague · parks, paths & countryside
13 waymarked trails start within 5 km of Timoleague
Parks and playing fields in Timoleague add up to 0.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical Irish town has 4.1. 3 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 0.4 for every square kilometre. Protected sites cover 3.6% of the land within 5 km; the nearest is Courtmacsherry Bay SPA.
Green space
0.2 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical Irish town: 4.1 ha
Footpaths
3 km
0.4 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical Irish town: 2.1 km per km²
Protected for nature
3.6%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Courtmacsherry Bay SPA
Woodland
4.1%
of the town and 1 km around it
Typical Irish town: 2.7%
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Timoleague?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Protected land nearbyCourtmacsherry Bay SPA reaches the edge of Timoleague.Less park per person0.2 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents; the typical Irish town has 4.1.
Timoleague’s strongest suit is protected land close by. Where it falls short is park space per person.
Against other towns
How Timoleague 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 walk0%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
0out of 100
Public green space0.2 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
0out of 100
Footpaths0.4 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
10out of 100
Protected for nature3.6%of the land within 5 km
63out of 100
Woodland4.1%of the town and 1 km around it, as mapped
69out 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
Timoleague has the 14th fewest footpaths per km² of 40 towns its size
The 40 Irish towns nearest in population (387 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
Timoleague0.4
Towns its size0.7
Co. Cork towns1.8
Typical Irish town2.1
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Timoleague0.2
Towns its size3.8
Co. Cork towns4.3
Typical Irish town4.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Timoleague0%
Towns its size83%
Co. Cork towns90%
Typical Irish town92%
Timoleague falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 39 of the 39 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 | Timoleague Cork | 0.4 | 4.1% | 3.6% | – |
| 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 Timoleague’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 Timoleague
The biggest is Kilnamanagh Wood, 5.3 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
Few Timoleague 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 (0%)Further (100%)
Timoleague0%
Co. Cork towns90%
Typical Irish town92%
About 400 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
Protected areas
3.6% of the land around Timoleague 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 Timoleague0.7%
Within 5 km3.6%
Co. Cork towns1.5%
Typical Irish town1.8%
2 protected sites lie within 5 km of Timoleague. Proposed Natural Heritage Areas cover 4.1% 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 60 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
60 km north-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
3 km of footpaths cross Timoleague
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
2.8 km
over 7.2 km² of town and the 1 km around it
Woodland
4.1%
about 0.3 km² of mapped woods
Registered trails
13
walking trails within 5 km
Km per km², town and 1 km around · mapped on OpenStreetMap
TimoleagueCo. Cork townsTypical Irish town
Footpaths0.4
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
TimoleagueCo. Cork townsTypical Irish town
Woodland4.1%
0%50%100%
Timoleague has less footpath per km² than 90% of Irish towns and more woodland than 69% of Irish towns.
Footpaths and woods: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Woods are mapped cover, private and Coillte forests included.
Footpaths & trails
13 waymarked trails start near Timoleague
3 km of footpaths are mapped in Timoleague and the kilometre around it, 0.4 km for every square kilometre (the typical Irish town has 2.1).
Walking trail
Seven Heads Trail31.0 km
Grange Loop21.0 km
Inchybridge Loop9.9 km
Abbeymahon Loop6.0 km
Estuary Walk4.0 km
Kilbrittain Trails - Kiln Walk14.5 km
Ballynamona Loop
5.0 km
Lusitania Way16.0 km
Barreragh Loop9.0 km
Butlerstown Coastal Loop14.0 km
Fuchsia Walk5.0 km
Kilbrittain Trails - Rathclaren Walk8.9 km
Kilbrittain Trails - Estuary Walk6.8 km
For a shorter walk, the Seven Heads Trail is 31.0 km, graded strenuous. 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 Timoleague: 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 | 16.6 | 16.2 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.8 |
| High (°C) | 10 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 136 | 107 | 97 | 85 | 78 | 86 | 92 | 99 | 98 | 133 | 135 | 148 |
May is the driest month (78 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 7.8 hours of daylight in December, and 148 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. The climate in Timoleague →
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
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 Timoleague
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 20 km, coloured by the share of the land within 5 km protected for nature.
ClonakiltyBandonInishannonKinsaleTimoleague
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Timoleague | 0% | 0.2 | 0.4 | 3.6% |
| Clonakilty 8.8 km | 70% | 1.0 | 0.3 | 3.3% |
| Bandon 11 km | 91% | 1.9 | 0.4 | 0% |
| Inishannon 16 km | 100% | 2.5 | 0.7 | 0% |
| Kinsale 18 km | 100% | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0% |
In Inishannon, 100% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park, more than here. Clonakilty, Bandon and Inishannon have at least twice Timoleague’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 Timoleague
Is there protected countryside near Timoleague?
Yes: 3.6% of the land within 5 km is protected, across 2 sites. Courtmacsherry Bay SPA reaches Timoleague.
What are the best walks near Timoleague?
13 waymarked trails start within 5 km, including the Seven Heads Trail, Grange Loop and Inchybridge Loop.
How many people in Timoleague live near a park?
0% 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 Timoleague?
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 Timoleague near a National Park?
The nearest of Ireland’s six National Parks is Killarney National Park, 60 km north-west of the town’s edge; it covers about 104 km².
Sources
Where Timoleague’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).