First pick
Phoenix Park
Park or garden
704 ha93.1 km of path
20 h 40 minto walk all 93.1 km of path
2.1 km northfrom the centre
Khyber RoadTinkler's PathKaziranga Forest Trail+2 paths
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Extract from the english Wikipedia. Author: Sean Munson · CC BY-SA 2.0100%near a park
Outdoors in Kilmainham · parks, paths & countryside
Kilmainham has more park space per resident than 9 in 10 Irish towns
There are 76.5 ha of parks and playing fields for every 1,000 people in Kilmainham, against 4.1 in the typical Irish town. 86 km of footpaths run through the neighbourhood and the kilometre around it, 7.7 for every square kilometre. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 100% of residents.
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical Irish town: 92%
Green space
76.5 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical Irish town: 4.1 ha
Footpaths
86 km
7.7 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical Irish town: 2.1 km per km²
Woodland
7.3%
of the town and 1 km around it
Typical Irish town: 2.7%
Character
What kind of outdoors neighbourhood is Kilmainham?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Room to roam76.5 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 98% of Irish towns.A neighbourhood of footpaths7.7 km of path per km², more than 96% of Irish towns. The typical town has 2.1.A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Countryside close byWicklow Mountains National Park starts 9.9 km south.
Kilmainham’s strongest suit is plenty of park space, followed by dense footpaths.
Against other towns
How Kilmainham 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 walk100%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
83out of 100
Public green space76.5 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
98out of 100
Footpaths7.7 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
96out of 100
Protected for nature0%of the land within 5 km
11out of 100
Woodland7.3%of the town and 1 km around it, as mapped
87out 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
Kilmainham has the 2nd most footpaths per km² of 40 towns its size
The 40 Irish towns nearest in population (8,806 to 11,741 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Cabra West (7.8 km per km²) to Tuam (0.4 km per km²).
Footpath, km per km²
Kilmainham7.7
Towns its size2.7
Co. Dublin towns5.4
Typical Irish town2.1
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Kilmainham76.5
Towns its size4.4
Co. Dublin towns7.6
Typical Irish town4.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Kilmainham100%
Towns its size96%
Co. Dublin towns100%
Typical Irish town92%
Against towns its size, Kilmainham stands out most for park space per resident: only 2 of the other 39 have more.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | The sea | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cabra West Dublin | 7.8 | 4.5% | 0% | – |
| 2 | Kilmainham Dublin | 7.7 | 7.3% | 0% | – |
| 3 | Phibsborough Dublin | 7.6 | 0.4% | 0% | – |
| 4 | Sandyford Dublin | 7.5 | 4.8% | 0.3% | 6.2% |
| 5 | Kilnamanagh Dublin | 7.4 | 3.9% | 0.5% | – |
| 6 | Palmerston Dublin | 6.9 | 8.6% | 0% | – |
| 7 | Ronanstown Dublin | 6.6 | 0.7% | 0% | – |
| 8 | Parnell Square Dublin | 6.6 | 0.2% | 0.1% | 5.6% |
| 9 | Glasnevin Dublin | 6.6 | 1.2% | 0% | – |
| 10 | Ballygall Dublin | 6.3 | 1.4% | 0% | – |
| 11 | Killiney Dublin | 6 | 7.7% | 0.5% | 45% |
| 12 | Churchtown Dublin | 5.6 | 3.3% | 0.1% | – |
| 13 | Drumcondra Dublin | 5.6 | 1.6% | 0.8% | 6.9% |
| 14 | Terenure Dublin | 4.9 | 2.1% | 0% | – |
| 15 | Monkstown Dublin | 4.2 | 0.8% | 0.3% | 38% |
| 16 | Finglas North Dublin | 4.2 | 1.2% | 0% | – |
| 17 | Shankill Dublin | 3.6 | 12% | 3.8% | 28% |
| 18 | Donaghmede Dublin | 3.5 | 2.7% | 6.2% | 31% |
| 19 | Kilmore Dublin | 3.1 | 2.2% | 3.5% | 9.5% |
| 20 | Donabate Dublin | 2.8 | 6.8% | 2.8% | 32% |
| 21 | Portmarnock Dublin | 2.7 | 0.8% | 7.9% | 44% |
| 22 | Skerries Dublin | 2 | 1.7% | 0% | 53% |
| 23 | Shannon Clare | 1.8 | 3.9% | 35% | – |
| 24 | Trim Meath | 1.3 | 0.9% | 1.5% | – |
| 25 | Waterford City Centre Waterford | 1.3 | 1.5% | 6% | – |
| 26 | Ratoath Meath | 1.3 | 0.4% | 0% | – |
| 27 | Lusk Dublin | 1.1 | 0.6% | 1.3% | 6.4% |
| 28 | Kildare Kildare | 1.1 | 0.4% | 1.8% | – |
| 29 | Rush Dublin | 1.1 | 0.4% | 3.7% | 51% |
| 30 | Athy Kildare | 0.9 | 0.3% | 1.6% | – |
| 31 | Ballina Mayo | 0.8 | 3.3% | 3.5% | – |
| 32 | Tramore Waterford | 0.8 | 0.9% | 3.9% | 34% |
| 33 | Portarlington Laois | 0.8 | 2.5% | 1.6% | – |
| 34 | Dungarvan Waterford | 0.7 | 0.7% | 1.8% | 19% |
| 35 | Gorey Wexford | 0.7 | 3.9% | 0.5% | – |
| 36 | Cavan Cavan | 0.6 | 6.7% | 5.1% | – |
| 37 | Grantstown and Ballinakill Waterford | 0.6 | 4.5% | 10% | – |
| 38 | Longford Longford | 0.6 | 2.7% | 5.6% | – |
| 39 | Nenagh Tipperary | 0.4 | 1.8% | 0% | – |
| 40 | Tuam Galway | 0.4 | 1.4% | 2.7% | – |
The map
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Kilmainham’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 Kilmainham
The biggest is Phoenix Park, 704 ha (1,739 acres).
All 7 named parks and woods by size: 764 ha (1,887 acres) and 105 km of path
Parks & gardens 764 ha
The two biggest, Phoenix Park and Royal Hospital Kilmainham, are 94% of the named green space and carry 97 km of path between them.
Royal Hospital Kilmainham
Park or garden
17 ha4.3 km of path
55 minto walk all 4.3 km of path
1.2 km eastfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Irish National War Memorial Gardens
Park or garden
14 ha2 km of path
25 minto walk all 2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Kilmainham
Directionsto a point inside
Lansdowne Valley Park
Park or garden
12 ha1.5 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.5 km of path
1.4 km south-westfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Brickfield Park
Park or garden · 350 m outside town
11 ha1.9 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.9 km of path
1.3 km south-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Markievicz Park
Park or garden
5.0 ha1.5 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.5 km of path
1.4 km westfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Jim Mitchell Park
Park or garden · 320 m outside town
0.4 ha0.4 km of path
0.9 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
Everyone in Kilmainham lives 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 (100%)Further (0%)
Kilmainham100%
Co. Dublin towns100%
Typical Irish town92%
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 Kilmainham
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 Kilmainham.
National Parks
Wicklow Mountains National Park is 9.9 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
Wicklow Mountains National Park
9.9 km south223 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
86 km of footpaths cross Kilmainham
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
86 km
over 11.2 km² of town and the 1 km around it
Woodland
7.3%
about 0.8 km² of mapped woods
Registered trails
5
walking trails within 5 km
Km per km², town and 1 km around · mapped on OpenStreetMap
KilmainhamCo. Dublin townsTypical Irish town
Footpaths7.7
04.59 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
KilmainhamCo. Dublin townsTypical Irish town
Woodland7.3%
0%50%100%
Kilmainham has more footpath per km² than 96% of Irish towns and more woodland than 87% of Irish towns.
Footpaths and woods: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Woods are mapped cover, private and Coillte forests included.
Footpaths & trails
5 waymarked trails start near Kilmainham
86 km of footpaths are mapped in Kilmainham and the kilometre around it, 7.7 km for every square kilometre (the typical Irish town has 2.1).
Long-distance wayGreenway
Grand Canal Way117.1 km
National Famine Way168.6 km
Royal Canal Way146.3 km
Royal Canal Greenway - Drumcondra - Ashtown - Castleknock8.9 km
Royal Canal Greenway Walking Trail121.4 km
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.
History
One historic park or garden on the record in Kilmainham
Parks, gardens, walled gardens and demesne walls in the town on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, each with its record.
GardenIrish National War Memorial Gardensfrom 1925National rating (NIAH)
The oldest dated is Irish National War Memorial Gardens, from 1925. One is rated National, the National Inventory’s second-highest rating.
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 Kilmainham: 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) | 8.0 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.8 | 17.0 | 16.5 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 62 | 53 | 52 | 52 | 55 | 63 | 59 | 67 | 62 | 76 | 84 | 73 |
April is the driest month (52 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7.5 hours of daylight in December, and 84 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. The climate in Kilmainham →
Things to do
2 viewpoints and 52 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: Kilmainham has 3.9× as many as the typical Irish town.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 2
Plus 2 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 52
Markievicz Playground0.3 km from town
Directionssoft area0.5 km from town
Directionsgames room0.5 km from town
Directionskindergarden playground0.6 km from town
DirectionsPlay Forest0.9 km from town
DirectionsThe Lair0.9 km from town
DirectionsWeaver's Park playground1.7 km from town
DirectionsPlus 45 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Dog parks 1
Bark Park0.1 km from town
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Unnamed places are counted, not listed.
Gardens & nature
6 gardens and nature sites to visit near Kilmainham
Gardens, national parks, nature sites and islands within 15 km of the town’s edge, each with its own page.
War Memorial GardensGarden · In Kilmainham
Its pageIveagh GardensGarden · 3.1 km from town
Its pageSaint Stephen's GreenGarden · 3.3 km from town
Its pageNational Botanic GardensGarden · 3.6 km from town
Its pageMerrion SquareGarden · 3.7 km from town
Its pageSaint Anne's ParkGarden · 8.9 km from town
Its pagePlaces to visit: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0), OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.
Next door
Next to Kilmainham
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 20 km, coloured by the share of the land within 5 km protected for nature.
InchicoreCrumlinDolphins BarnChapelizodDeciesKylemoreKilmainham
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kilmainham | 100% | 76.5 | 7.7 | 0% |
| Inchicore 1.1 km | 75% | 7.8 | 4.5 | 0% |
| Crumlin 1.4 km | 100% | 4.2 | 5.4 | 0% |
| Dolphins Barn 1.6 km | 100% | 40.8 | 8.4 | 0% |
| Chapelizod 1.7 km | 100% | 170.9 | 7.8 | 0% |
| Decies 1.7 km | 100% | 3.3 | 4.8 | 0% |
| Kylemore 2.1 km | 75% | 11.0 | 4.0 | 0% |
None of the neighbours has many more of its people near a park than Kilmainham. Chapelizod has at least twice Kilmainham’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 Kilmainham
What is the biggest park in Kilmainham?
Phoenix Park, 704 ha (1,739 acres), just outside the built-up area. Royal Hospital Kilmainham (17 ha) is second. 7 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the neighbourhood or within 400 m of it.
What are the best walks near Kilmainham?
5 waymarked trails start within 5 km, including the Grand Canal Way, National Famine Way and Royal Canal Way.
How many people in Kilmainham live near a park?
100% 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 Kilmainham?
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 Kilmainham near a National Park?
The nearest of Ireland’s six National Parks is Wicklow Mountains National Park, 9.9 km south of the town’s edge; it covers about 223 km².
What is there to do outdoors around Kilmainham?
Within 2 km, OpenStreetMap maps 2 viewpoints and 9 picnic sites; the named ones are listed under Things to do, with directions.
Which parks in Kilmainham are historic?
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage records one historic park, garden or demesne in the town: Irish National War Memorial Gardens.
Sources
Where Kilmainham’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
- 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).