First pick
Rathcoole Park
Park or garden
23 ha3.3 km of path
45 minto walk all 3.3 km of path
0.8 km westfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Ian Paterson · CC BY-SA 2.068%near a park
Outdoors in Saggart · parks, paths & countryside
Verschoyle's Hill, 386 m, rises within 2 km of Saggart
Wicklow Mountains National Park begins 6.1 km away. 4 waymarked trails start within 5 km of Saggart, among them the Slievethoul Lugg Walk and Saggart Hill Loop. Parks and playing fields in Saggart add up to 8.1 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical Irish town has 4.1.
Near a park
68%
of residents within 400 m
Typical Irish town: 92%
Green space
8.1 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical Irish town: 4.1 ha
Footpaths
50 km
4.6 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical Irish town: 2.1 km per km²
Woodland
2%
of the town and 1 km around it
Typical Irish town: 2.7%
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Saggart?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Countryside close byWicklow Mountains National Park starts 6.1 km south-east.Hills close byVerschoyle's Hill, 386 m, is within 2 km.Parks can be a walk away32% of residents live more than 400 m from a park or playing field.
Saggart’s strongest suit is Wicklow Mountains National Park close by, followed by the hills close by. Where it falls short is how far some homes are from a park.
Against other towns
How Saggart 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 walk68%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
17out of 100
Public green space8.1 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
73out of 100
Footpaths4.6 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
71out of 100
Protected for nature0%of the land within 5 km
11out of 100
Woodland2%of the town and 1 km around it, as mapped
38out 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
Saggart has the 9th most footpaths per km² of 40 towns its size
The 40 Irish towns nearest in population (3,970 to 5,307 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Chapelizod (7.8 km per km²) to Charleville (0 km per km²).
Footpath, km per km²
Saggart4.6
Towns its size1.8
Co. Dublin towns5.4
Typical Irish town2.1
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Saggart8.1
Towns its size6.1
Co. Dublin towns7.6
Typical Irish town4.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Saggart68%
Towns its size79%
Co. Dublin towns100%
Typical Irish town92%
Against towns its size, Saggart stands out most for path per km²: only 8 of the other 39 have more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 30 of the others do better.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | The sea | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chapelizod Dublin | 7.8 | 11% | 0% | – |
| 2 | Gurranebraher Cork | 7.4 | 1.6% | 0.5% | – |
| 3 | St Luke's Cork | 6 | 3.5% | 2.8% | – |
| 4 | Ballyboden Dublin | 5.9 | 4.3% | 0.5% | – |
| 5 | Montenotte Cork | 5.5 | 5.6% | 3.5% | – |
| 6 | Newcastle Galway | 5.4 | 1.7% | 15% | 29% |
| 7 | Tramore Cork | 4.7 | 4.6% | 3.7% | – |
| 8 | Knockrea Cork | 4.7 | 3.1% | 3.7% | – |
| 9 | Saggart Dublin | 4.6 | 2% | 0% | – |
| 10 | Woodquay and Nuns Island Galway | 4.5 | 0.7% | 14% | 32% |
| 11 | Inchicore Dublin | 4.5 | 3.9% | 0% | – |
| 12 | Dangan Galway | 4.3 | 3.9% | 18% | 21% |
| 13 | Mervue Galway | 4.3 | 3.6% | 11% | 25% |
| 14 | Bohernabreena Dublin | 4.3 | 2.9% | 5% | – |
| 15 | Tivoli Cork | 4 | 7% | 4.8% | – |
| 16 | Fair Hill Cork | 4 | 4.4% | 0.4% | – |
| 17 | Prospect and Newtown Pery Limerick | 3.6 | 1.5% | 9.9% | – |
| 18 | Poleberry Waterford | 2.4 | 0.6% | 7.2% | – |
| 19 | Castlegar Galway | 1.8 | 1.4% | 16% | 16% |
| 20 | Rathbane Limerick | 1.8 | 1.1% | 6% | – |
| 21 | Glanmire Cork | 1.7 | 13% | 6.6% | – |
| 22 | Kilcoole Wicklow | 1.5 | 4.3% | 5.8% | 37% |
| 23 | Glounthaune Cork | 1.2 | 8% | 6.1% | – |
| 24 | Athenry Galway | 1.2 | 1.2% | 0% | – |
| 25 | Lehenagh Cork | 1.2 | 2.5% | 0.3% | – |
| 26 | Newcastle Dublin | 1.1 | 0.9% | 0% | – |
| 27 | Ballybeg Waterford | 1 | 1.2% | 4.1% | – |
| 28 | Grange Waterford | 1 | 0.8% | 5% | – |
| 29 | Birr Offaly | 0.8 | 14% | 5.2% | – |
| 30 | Monasterevin Kildare | 0.6 | 16% | 2% | – |
| 31 | Courtown Wexford | 0.6 | 8.6% | 0% | 37% |
| 32 | Macroom Cork | 0.4 | 4.9% | 3.9% | – |
| 33 | Duleek Meath | 0.4 | 0.1% | 1.3% | – |
| 34 | Cashel Tipperary | 0.4 | 1.8% | 1.4% | – |
| 35 | Listowel Kerry | 0.4 | 2.3% | 4.8% | – |
| 36 | Mountmellick Laois | 0.3 | 0.5% | 3.4% | – |
| 37 | Tullow Carlow | 0.3 | 0.4% | 1.7% | – |
| 38 | Clonakilty Cork | 0.3 | 1.8% | 3.3% | 7.1% |
| 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 Saggart’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 Saggart
The biggest is Rathcoole Park, 23 ha (56 acres).
Carrigmore Park
Park or garden · 350 m outside town
4.3 ha1.3 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.3 km of path
1.3 km eastfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Olympic Garden
Park or garden · 260 m outside town
0.3 ha0.2 km of path
0.8 km 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
7 in 10 Saggart 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 (68%)Further (32%)
Saggart68%
Co. Dublin towns100%
Typical Irish town92%
About 1,500 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
Protected areas
Glenasmole Valley SAC is the nearest protected area, 4.8 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 Saggart0%
Within 5 km0%
Co. Dublin towns0.2%
Typical Irish town1.8%
One protected site lies within 5 km of Saggart. Proposed Natural Heritage Areas cover 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.
Glenasmole Valley SACSpecial Area of Conservation · 1.5 km² · 4.8 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
Wicklow Mountains National Park is 6.1 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
6.1 km south-east223 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
50 km of footpaths cross Saggart
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
50 km
over 10.7 km² of town and the 1 km around it
Woodland
2%
about 0.2 km² of mapped woods
Registered trails
4
walking trails within 5 km
Km per km², town and 1 km around · mapped on OpenStreetMap
SaggartCo. Dublin townsTypical Irish town
Footpaths4.6
03.57 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
SaggartCo. Dublin townsTypical Irish town
Woodland2%
0%50%100%
Saggart has more footpath per km² than 71% of Irish towns and less woodland than 62% of Irish towns.
Footpaths and woods: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Woods are mapped cover, private and Coillte forests included.
Footpaths & trails
4 waymarked trails start near Saggart
50 km of footpaths are mapped in Saggart and the kilometre around it, 4.6 km for every square kilometre (the typical Irish town has 2.1).
Walking trailLong-distance way
Slievethoul Lugg Walk6.9 km
Saggart Hill Loop3.4 km
Dublin Mountains Way41.2 km
Grand Canal Way117.1 km
For a shorter walk, the Slievethoul Lugg Walk is 6.9 km, graded easy.
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 Saggart: 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) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 20 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 72 | 64 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 67 | 65 | 74 | 69 | 88 | 94 | 85 |
March is the driest month (58 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7.5 hours of daylight in December, and 94 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. The climate in Saggart →
Things to do
1 hill or peak and 1 waterfall
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.
1Hills and peaks1Waterfalls1Nature reserves21Playgrounds3.5× the typical Irish town, per resident1Campsites
Per resident, playgrounds stand out most: Saggart has 3.5× as many as the typical Irish town. The highest named top on the map is Verschoyle's Hill, at 386 m, 1.8 km from town.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 1
Verschoyle's Hill386 m · 1.8 km from town
DirectionsWaterfalls 1
Plus 1 waterfall without a name on the map.
Nature reserves 1
Plus 1 nature reserve without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 21
Saggart Playground0.1 km from town
DirectionsSwings0.2 km from town
DirectionsSlide0.2 km from town
DirectionsSand Pit0.3 km from town
DirectionsPlus 17 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Camac Valley Tourist Caravan & Camping Park1.9 km from 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 Saggart
Gardens, national parks, nature sites and islands within 15 km of the town’s edge, each with its own page.
Saint Stephen's GreenGarden · 13 km from town
Its pagePlaces to visit: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0), OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.
Next door
Next to Saggart
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 20 km, coloured by the share of the land within 5 km protected for nature.
RathcooleJobstownFettercairnNewcastleTallaghtDeansrathSaggart
Under 1%1–10%10–25%25–50%50%+
In Tallaght, 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 Saggart
What is the biggest park in Saggart?
Rathcoole Park, 23 ha (56 acres). Carrigmore Park (4.3 ha) is second. 3 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is there protected countryside near Saggart?
One protected site lies within 5 km, though it covers under 1% of the land. The nearest is Glenasmole Valley SAC, 4.8 km from the edge of town.
What are the best walks near Saggart?
4 waymarked trails start within 5 km, including the Slievethoul Lugg Walk, Saggart Hill Loop and Dublin Mountains Way.
How many people in Saggart live near a park?
68% 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 Saggart?
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 Saggart near a National Park?
The nearest of Ireland’s six National Parks is Wicklow Mountains National Park, 6.1 km south-east of the town’s edge; it covers about 223 km².
What is there to do outdoors around Saggart?
Within 2 km, OpenStreetMap maps 1 hill or peak, 1 waterfall and 1 nature reserve; the named ones are listed under Things to do, with directions.
Sources
Where Saggart’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).