First pick
Castletown Demesne
Park or garden
195 ha14.2 km of path
3 h 10 minto walk all 14.2 km of path
1.4 km north-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Eirian Evans · CC BY-SA 2.089%near a park
Outdoors in Celbridge · parks, paths & countryside
Celbridge has more park space per resident than 8 in 10 Irish towns
There are 10.4 ha of parks and playing fields for every 1,000 people in Celbridge, against 4.1 in the typical Irish town. Wicklow Mountains National Park begins 14 km away. 4 waymarked trails start within 5 km of Celbridge, among them the Grand Canal Way and National Famine Way.
Near a park
89%
of residents within 400 m
Typical Irish town: 92%
Green space
10.4 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical Irish town: 4.1 ha
Footpaths
51 km
2.4 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical Irish town: 2.1 km per km²
Protected for nature
0.5%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Rye Water Valley/Carton SAC
Woodland
6.9%
of the town and 1 km around it
Typical Irish town: 2.7%
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Celbridge?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Room to roam10.4 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 82% of Irish towns.Countryside close byWicklow Mountains National Park starts 14 km south-east.
Celbridge’s strongest suit is plenty of park space, followed by Wicklow Mountains National Park close by.
Against other towns
How Celbridge 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 walk89%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
43out of 100
Public green space10.4 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
83out of 100
Footpaths2.4 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
53out of 100
Protected for nature0.5%of the land within 5 km
38out of 100
Woodland6.9%of the town and 1 km around it, as mapped
84out 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
Celbridge has the 17th fewest footpaths per km² of 40 towns its size
The 40 Irish towns nearest in population (17,259 to 24,366 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Esker (10.5 km per km²) to Portlaoise (0.6 km per km²).
Footpath, km per km²
Celbridge2.4
Towns its size3.3
Co. Kildare towns1.0
Typical Irish town2.1
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Celbridge10.4
Towns its size4.1
Co. Kildare towns2.2
Typical Irish town4.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Celbridge89%
Towns its size96%
Co. Kildare towns79%
Typical Irish town92%
Against towns its size, Celbridge stands out most for park space per resident: only 8 of the other 39 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 23 of the others do better.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | The sea | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esker Dublin | 10.5 | 2.1% | 0.1% | – |
| 2 | Old Bawn Dublin | 8.5 | 3% | 1.8% | – |
| 3 | Dolphins Barn Dublin | 8.4 | 2.9% | 0% | – |
| 4 | Stoneybatter Dublin | 7.5 | 1.6% | 0% | – |
| 5 | The Liberties Dublin | 7.4 | 0.5% | 0% | – |
| 6 | Carpenterstown Dublin | 7.3 | 11% | 0% | – |
| 7 | Lucan Dublin | 6.8 | 7.3% | 0.2% | – |
| 8 | Mulhuddart Dublin | 6.6 | 4% | 0% | – |
| 9 | Stillorgan Dublin | 6.5 | 3% | 0.1% | 17% |
| 10 | Ballymun Dublin | 6.5 | 2.6% | 0% | – |
| 11 | Clonsilla Dublin | 6.4 | 3% | 0.1% | – |
| 12 | Jobstown Dublin | 6.3 | 1.9% | 2.2% | – |
| 13 | Rathmines West Dublin | 6 | 1.7% | 0.1% | 5.8% |
| 14 | Rathfarnham Dublin | 5.5 | 4.8% | 0.1% | – |
| 15 | Crumlin Dublin | 5.4 | 0.8% | 0% | – |
| 16 | Templeogue Dublin | 5.2 | 3.8% | 0.1% | – |
| 17 | Clondalkin Dublin | 4.6 | 3.3% | 0% | – |
| 18 | Stepaside Dublin | 4.3 | 15% | 6.4% | 5.9% |
| 19 | Maynooth Kildare | 3.7 | 3.9% | 0.5% | – |
| 20 | Sandymount Dublin | 3.6 | 1.2% | 3.6% | 35% |
| 21 | Clontarf East Dublin | 3.1 | 3% | 6.1% | 38% |
| 22 | Dún Laoghaire Dublin | 3 | 0.5% | 0.3% | 56% |
| 23 | Beaumont Dublin | 2.9 | 2% | 3.4% | 9.7% |
| 24 | Celbridge Kildare | 2.4 | 6.9% | 0.5% | – |
| 25 | Malahide Dublin | 2.4 | 3.4% | 2.1% | 32% |
| 26 | Greystones-Delgany Wicklow | 2.2 | 11% | 5% | 35% |
| 27 | Balbriggan Dublin | 2.1 | 1.6% | 0% | 37% |
| 28 | Douglas Cork | 1.7 | 4.6% | 5% | – |
| 29 | Knocknacarra Galway | 1.6 | 3.4% | 32% | 34% |
| 30 | Ballincollig Cork | 1.3 | 8.4% | 0% | – |
| 31 | Athlone Westmeath | 1.3 | 6.1% | 14% | – |
| 32 | Sligo Sligo | 1.2 | 6.1% | 9.5% | 18% |
| 33 | Clonmel Tipperary | 1.1 | 14% | 3.9% | – |
| 34 | Wexford Wexford | 1.1 | 3.8% | 13% | 22% |
| 35 | Dooradoyle Limerick | 1 | 2.6% | 7.7% | – |
| 36 | Carrigaline Cork | 0.9 | 6.5% | 0.2% | 6.7% |
| 37 | Mullingar Westmeath | 0.8 | 8.9% | 3.3% | – |
| 38 | Letterkenny Donegal | 0.7 | 4.9% | 4.3% | 5.3% |
| 39 | Newbridge Kildare | 0.6 | 1.6% | 4.9% | – |
| 40 | Portlaoise Laois | 0.6 | 2.6% | 1.1% | – |
The map
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Celbridge’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 Celbridge
The biggest is Castletown Demesne, 195 ha (483 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
9 in 10 Celbridge 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 (89%)Further (11%)
Celbridge89%
Co. Kildare towns79%
Typical Irish town92%
About 2,000 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
Protected areas
Rye Water Valley/Carton SAC is the nearest protected area, 2.2 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 Celbridge0%
Within 5 km0.5%
Co. Kildare towns0.5%
Typical Irish town1.8%
One protected site lies within 5 km of Celbridge. Proposed Natural Heritage Areas cover 1.3% 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.
Rye Water Valley/Carton SACSpecial Area of Conservation · 0.7 km² · 2.2 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 14 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
14 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
51 km of footpaths cross Celbridge
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
51 km
over 20.9 km² of town and the 1 km around it
Woodland
6.9%
about 1.4 km² of mapped woods
Registered trails
4
walking trails within 5 km
Km per km², town and 1 km around · mapped on OpenStreetMap
CelbridgeCo. Kildare townsTypical Irish town
Footpaths2.4
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
CelbridgeCo. Kildare townsTypical Irish town
Woodland6.9%
0%50%100%
Celbridge has more footpath per km² than 53% of Irish towns and more woodland than 84% 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 Celbridge
51 km of footpaths are mapped in Celbridge and the kilometre around it, 2.4 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 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.
When to get out
The best walking months in Celbridge: 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 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 64 | 57 | 51 | 54 | 55 | 64 | 62 | 73 | 66 | 81 | 85 | 77 |
March is the driest month (51 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7.5 hours of daylight in December, and 85 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. The climate in Celbridge →
Things to do
1 hill or peak and 9 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.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 1
Saint Patrick's Hill1.7 km from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 9
Abbey Playgroundin town
DirectionsCelbridge Playgroundin town
DirectionsWonderful Barn Playground1.8 km from town
DirectionsPlus 6 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Unnamed places are counted, not listed.
Gardens & nature
A garden or nature site to visit near Celbridge
Gardens, national parks, nature sites and islands within 15 km of the town’s edge, each with its own page.
Lodge Park Walled GardenGarden · 3.1 km from town
Its pagePlaces to visit: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0), OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.
Next door
Next to Celbridge
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 20 km, coloured by the share of the land within 5 km protected for nature.
LeixlipStraffanMaynoothNewcastleLucanEskerCelbridge
Under 1%1–10%10–25%25–50%50%+
In Esker, 98% 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 Celbridge
What is the biggest park in Celbridge?
Castletown Demesne, 195 ha (483 acres). Oakleigh Park (0.6 ha) is second. 2 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is there protected countryside near Celbridge?
One protected site lies within 5 km, though it covers under 1% of the land. The nearest is Rye Water Valley/Carton SAC, 2.2 km from the edge of town.
What are the best walks near Celbridge?
4 waymarked trails start within 5 km, including the Grand Canal Way, National Famine Way and Royal Canal Way.
How many people in Celbridge live near a park?
89% 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 Celbridge?
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 Celbridge near a National Park?
The nearest of Ireland’s six National Parks is Wicklow Mountains National Park, 14 km south-east of the town’s edge; it covers about 223 km².
What is there to do outdoors around Celbridge?
Within 2 km, OpenStreetMap maps 1 hill or peak; the named ones are listed under Things to do, with directions.
Sources
Where Celbridge’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).