First pick
Bath Green
Park or garden
4.1 ha1.5 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.5 km of path
Centralin the middle of Moville
Moville-Greencastle Shore Walk
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Andreas F. Borchert · CC BY-SA 4.069%near a park
Outdoors in Moville · parks, paths & countryside
Moville is on the coast
The sea makes up 40% of the area within 5 km. Footpaths add up to 5 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 0.4 for every square kilometre. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 69% of residents.
Near a park
69%
of residents within 400 m
Typical Irish town: 92%
Green space
5.1 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical Irish town: 4.1 ha
Footpaths
5 km
0.4 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical Irish town: 2.1 km per km²
Woodland
3.1%
of the town and 1 km around it
Typical Irish town: 2.7%
The sea
40%
of the area within 5 km
A coastal town
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Moville?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
On the coast40% of the area within 5 km is sea.Few mapped footpaths0.4 km of path per km²; the typical Irish town has 2.1.
Moville’s strongest suit is the sea. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Against other towns
How Moville 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 walk69%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
20out of 100
Public green space5.1 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
60out of 100
Footpaths0.4 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
10out of 100
Protected for nature0%of the land within 5 km
11out of 100
Woodland3.1%of the town and 1 km around it, as mapped
56out of 100
The sea40%of the area within 5 km
96out 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
Moville has the 14th fewest footpaths per km² of 40 towns its size
The 40 Irish towns nearest in population (1,390 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
Moville0.4
Towns its size0.7
Co. Donegal towns0.4
Typical Irish town2.1
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Moville5.1
Towns its size4.1
Co. Donegal towns2.2
Typical Irish town4.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Moville69%
Towns its size83%
Co. Donegal towns54%
Typical Irish town92%
Against towns its size, Moville stands out most for park space per resident: only 15 of the other 39 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 26 of the 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 | Moville Donegal | 0.4 | 3.1% | 0% | 40% |
| 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 Moville’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 Moville
The biggest is Bath Green, 4.1 ha (10 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
7 in 10 Moville 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 (69%)Further (31%)
Moville69%
Co. Donegal towns54%
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
North Inishowen Coast SAC is the nearest protected area, 4.6 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 Moville0%
Within 5 km0%
Co. Donegal towns4.7%
Typical Irish town1.8%
One protected site lies within 5 km of Moville. Ireland’s National Parks have a block of their own on this page; much of their land also lies inside these sites.
North Inishowen Coast SACSpecial Area of Conservation · 76 km² · 4.6 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
Glenveagh National Park is 56 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
Glenveagh National Park
56 km west155 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
5 km of footpaths cross Moville
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
5.0 km
over 13 km² of town and the 1 km around it
Woodland
3.1%
about 0.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km², town and 1 km around · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MovilleCo. Donegal townsTypical Irish town
Footpaths0.4
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MovilleCo. Donegal townsTypical Irish town
Woodland3.1%
0%50%100%
Moville has less footpath per km² than 90% of Irish towns and more woodland than 56% 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 Moville
5 km of footpaths are mapped in Moville and the kilometre around it, 0.4 km for every square kilometre (the typical Irish town has 2.1).
No waymarked trail starts within 5 km of Moville; 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 Moville: June 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) | 7.7 | 9.6 | 11.7 | 14.0 | 16.1 | 17.4 | 16.9 | 15.0 | 12.6 | 10.3 | 8.2 | 7.2 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 16 | 13 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 132 | 106 | 102 | 76 | 75 | 87 | 101 | 118 | 95 | 125 | 132 | 143 |
May is the driest month (75 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 18 °C). Winter days are short, about 7.2 hours of daylight in December, and 143 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. The climate in Moville →
The coast
The coast and bathing waters near Moville
40% of the area within 5 km of Moville is sea.
Bathing water classes: EPA, latest season (CC BY 4.0). Sea: the area outside CSO and ONS land outlines. Check today’s water quality on beaches.ie
Things to do
1 waterfall and 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
Waterfalls 1
Plus 1 waterfall without a name on the map.
Picnic sites 1
Plus 1 picnic site without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 1
Plus 1 playground without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Moville Boutique Hostel Campgroundin town
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Unnamed places are counted, not listed.
Gardens & nature
A garden or nature site to visit near Moville
Gardens, national parks, nature sites and islands within 15 km of the town’s edge, each with its own page.
Magilligan Point ViewNature site · 2.7 km from town
Its pagePlaces to visit: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0), OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.
Next door
Next to Moville
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 20 km, coloured by the share of the land within 5 km protected for nature.
GreencastleCarndonaghMoville
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moville | 69% | 5.1 | 0.4 | 0% |
| Greencastle 3.1 km | 25% | 1.6 | 0.5 | 3% |
| Carndonagh 16 km | 63% | 4.3 | 0.1 | 5.1% |
None of the neighbours has many more of its people near a park than Moville.
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 Moville
What is the biggest park in Moville?
Bath Green, 4.1 ha (10 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is there protected countryside near Moville?
One protected site lies within 5 km, though it covers under 1% of the land. The nearest is North Inishowen Coast SAC, 4.6 km from the edge of town.
How many people in Moville live near a park?
69% 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 Moville?
On the town’s 1991–2020 averages and its daylight: June to September, when days are long, highs reach 15 °C and rain is light for the place.
Is Moville near a National Park?
The nearest of Ireland’s six National Parks is Glenveagh National Park, 56 km west of the town’s edge; it covers about 155 km².
What is there to do outdoors around Moville?
Within 2 km, OpenStreetMap maps 1 waterfall and 1 picnic site; the named ones are listed under Things to do, with directions.
Sources
Where Moville’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).