First pick
Listowel Town Park
Park or garden
16 ha2.4 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.4 km of path
0.6 km south-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.055%near a park
Outdoors in Listowel · parks, paths & countryside
Lower River Shannon SAC reaches the edge of Listowel
4.8% of the land within 5 km is protected for nature, the nearest site being Lower River Shannon SAC. 3 waymarked trails start within 5 km of Listowel, among them the Kingdom of Kerry Greenways - Listowel to Limerick and Listowel Village Walks - Sive Walk. 55% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field.
Near a park
55%
of residents within 400 m
Typical Irish town: 92%
Green space
4.2 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical Irish town: 4.1 ha
Footpaths
10 km
0.4 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical Irish town: 2.1 km per km²
Protected for nature
4.8%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Lower River Shannon SAC
Woodland
2.3%
of the town and 1 km around it
Typical Irish town: 2.7%
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Listowel?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Protected land nearbyLower River Shannon SAC reaches the edge of Listowel.Few mapped footpaths0.4 km of path per km²; the typical Irish town has 2.1.
Listowel’s strongest suit is protected land close by. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Against other towns
How Listowel 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 walk55%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
5out of 100
Public green space4.2 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
53out of 100
Footpaths0.4 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
10out of 100
Protected for nature4.8%of the land within 5 km
71out of 100
Woodland2.3%of the town and 1 km around it, as mapped
44out 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
Listowel has the 6th fewest footpaths per km² of 40 towns its size
The 40 Irish towns nearest in population (4,278 to 5,478 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 Carrick-On-Shannon (0.2 km per km²).
Footpath, km per km²
Listowel0.4
Towns its size2.1
Co. Kerry towns0.6
Typical Irish town2.1
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Listowel4.2
Towns its size4.3
Co. Kerry towns2.9
Typical Irish town4.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Listowel55%
Towns its size80%
Co. Kerry towns77%
Typical Irish town92%
Listowel falls furthest behind on path per km², where 34 of the 39 others do better.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | The sea | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chapelizod Dublin | 7.8 | 11% | 0% | – |
| 2 | St Stephen's Green Dublin | 7.4 | 0.9% | 0.3% | 11% |
| 3 | Gurranebraher Cork | 7.4 | 1.6% | 0.5% | – |
| 4 | St Luke's Cork | 6 | 3.5% | 2.8% | – |
| 5 | Ballyboden Dublin | 5.9 | 4.3% | 0.5% | – |
| 6 | Edmondstown Dublin | 5.1 | 7.5% | 4.5% | – |
| 7 | Ballinlough Cork | 4.9 | 3.2% | 3.8% | – |
| 8 | Tramore Cork | 4.7 | 4.6% | 3.7% | – |
| 9 | Knockrea Cork | 4.7 | 3.1% | 3.7% | – |
| 10 | Saggart Dublin | 4.6 | 2% | 0% | – |
| 11 | Woodquay and Nuns Island Galway | 4.5 | 0.7% | 14% | 32% |
| 12 | Inchicore Dublin | 4.5 | 3.9% | 0% | – |
| 13 | Dangan Galway | 4.3 | 3.9% | 18% | 21% |
| 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 | Garryowen Limerick | 3.4 | 0.5% | 9.6% | – |
| 18 | Salthill Galway | 3.3 | 1% | 15% | 46% |
| 19 | Galvone Limerick | 2.9 | 0.7% | 8.3% | – |
| 20 | Poleberry Waterford | 2.4 | 0.6% | 7.2% | – |
| 21 | Castlegar Galway | 1.8 | 1.4% | 16% | 16% |
| 22 | Glanmire Cork | 1.7 | 13% | 6.6% | – |
| 23 | Kilcoole Wicklow | 1.5 | 4.3% | 5.8% | 37% |
| 24 | Glounthaune Cork | 1.2 | 8% | 6.1% | – |
| 25 | Athenry Galway | 1.2 | 1.2% | 0% | – |
| 26 | Newcastle Dublin | 1.1 | 0.9% | 0% | – |
| 27 | Ballybeg Waterford | 1 | 1.2% | 4.1% | – |
| 28 | Ardee Louth | 0.9 | 0.7% | 0.8% | – |
| 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 | Duleek Meath | 0.4 | 0.1% | 1.3% | – |
| 33 | Cashel Tipperary | 0.4 | 1.8% | 1.4% | – |
| 34 | Ballybofey-Stranorlar Donegal | 0.4 | 7.7% | 2.3% | – |
| 35 | Listowel Kerry | 0.4 | 2.3% | 4.8% | – |
| 36 | Tipperary Tipperary | 0.3 | 0.7% | 0.8% | – |
| 37 | Mountmellick Laois | 0.3 | 0.5% | 3.4% | – |
| 38 | Tullow Carlow | 0.3 | 0.4% | 1.7% | – |
| 39 | Clonakilty Cork | 0.3 | 1.8% | 3.3% | 7.1% |
| 40 | Carrick-On-Shannon Leitrim | 0.2 | 2% | 0% | – |
The map
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Listowel’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 Listowel
The biggest is Listowel Town Park, 16 ha (39 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
5 in 10 Listowel 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 (55%)Further (46%)
Listowel55%
Co. Kerry towns77%
Typical Irish town92%
About 2,200 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
Protected areas
The 4 protected sites within 5 km of Listowel
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 Listowel3.7%
Within 5 km4.8%
Co. Kerry towns12%
Typical Irish town1.8%
4 protected sites lie within 5 km of Listowel. Proposed Natural Heritage Areas cover 1.4% 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.
Lower River Shannon SACSpecial Area of Conservation · 702 km² · reaches Listowel
NPWS pageMoanveanlagh Bog SACSpecial Area of Conservation · 2.0 km² · 2.6 km from the edge
NPWS pageStack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPASpecial Protection Area (birds) · 268 km² · 3.8 km from the edge
NPWS pageBunnaruddee Bog NHANatural Heritage Area · 1.5 km² · 4.9 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
Killarney National Park is 41 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
41 km south104 km²
National Park
Burren National Park
65 km north-east21 km²
2 of Ireland’s six National Parks are within 100 km of Listowel.
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
10 km of footpaths cross Listowel
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
9.7 km
over 26.1 km² of town and the 1 km around it
Woodland
2.3%
about 0.6 km² of mapped woods
Registered trails
3
walking trails within 5 km
Km per km², town and 1 km around · mapped on OpenStreetMap
ListowelCo. Kerry townsTypical Irish town
Footpaths0.4
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
ListowelCo. Kerry townsTypical Irish town
Woodland2.3%
0%50%100%
Listowel has less footpath per km² than 90% of Irish towns and less 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
3 waymarked trails start near Listowel
10 km of footpaths are mapped in Listowel and the kilometre around it, 0.4 km for every square kilometre (the typical Irish town has 2.1).
GreenwayWalking trail
Kingdom of Kerry Greenways - Listowel to Limerick16.0 km
Listowel Village Walks - Sive Walk6.7 km
Listowel Village Walks - River Walk2.9 km
For a shorter walk, the Listowel Village Walks - Sive Walk is 6.7 km, graded moderate. 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 Listowel: 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 | 16.8 | 16.3 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.6 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 131 | 100 | 85 | 72 | 69 | 76 | 85 | 96 | 97 | 118 | 137 | 138 |
May is the driest month (69 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 7.7 hours of daylight in December, and 138 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. The climate in Listowel →
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
Listowel Playgroundin 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 Listowel
Gardens, national parks, nature sites and islands within 15 km of the town’s edge, each with its own page.
Garden of EuropeGarden · In Listowel
Its pagePlaces to visit: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0), OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.
Next door
Next to Listowel
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 20 km, coloured by the share of the land within 5 km protected for nature.
AbbeyfealeBallybunionListowel
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Listowel | 55% | 4.2 | 0.4 | 4.8% |
| Abbeyfeale 14 km | 55% | 2.4 | 0.2 | 13% |
| Ballybunion 15 km | 41% | 1.1 | 0.6 | 7.4% |
None of the neighbours has many more of its people near a park than Listowel.
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 Listowel
What is the biggest park in Listowel?
Listowel Town Park, 16 ha (39 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is there protected countryside near Listowel?
Yes: 4.8% of the land within 5 km is protected, across 4 sites. Lower River Shannon SAC reaches Listowel.
What are the best walks near Listowel?
3 waymarked trails start within 5 km, including the Kingdom of Kerry Greenways - Listowel to Limerick, Listowel Village Walks - Sive Walk and Listowel Village Walks - River Walk.
How many people in Listowel live near a park?
55% 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 Listowel?
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 Listowel near a National Park?
The nearest of Ireland’s six National Parks is Killarney National Park, 41 km south of the town’s edge; it covers about 104 km². One more is within 100 km.
Sources
Where Listowel’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).