First pick
Camphill nature trail
Park or garden
2.9 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
Centralin the middle of Kilcullen
Camphill Nature Trail
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: locardi · CC BY-SA 3.074%near a park
Outdoors in Kilcullen · parks, paths & countryside
Parks and walks in Kilcullen
Wicklow Mountains National Park begins 16 km away. Footpaths add up to 10 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 0.8 for every square kilometre. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 74% of residents.
Near a park
74%
of residents within 400 m
Typical Irish town: 92%
Green space
3.5 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical Irish town: 4.1 ha
Footpaths
10 km
0.8 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical Irish town: 2.1 km per km²
Woodland
5.3%
of the town and 1 km around it
Typical Irish town: 2.7%
Against other towns
How Kilcullen 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 walk74%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
25out of 100
Public green space3.5 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
45out of 100
Footpaths0.8 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
23out of 100
Protected for nature0%of the land within 5 km
11out of 100
Woodland5.3%of the town and 1 km around it, as mapped
77out 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
Kilcullen has the 12th fewest footpaths per km² of 40 towns its size
The 40 Irish towns nearest in population (3,263 to 4,454 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Shandon (7.3 km per km²) to Charleville (0 km per km²).
Footpath, km per km²
Kilcullen0.8
Towns its size1.2
Co. Kildare towns1.0
Typical Irish town2.1
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Kilcullen3.5
Towns its size4.5
Co. Kildare towns2.2
Typical Irish town4.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Kilcullen74%
Towns its size84%
Co. Kildare towns79%
Typical Irish town92%
Kilcullen falls furthest behind on path per km², where 28 of the 39 others do better.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | The sea | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shandon Cork | 7.3 | 1.9% | 0.9% | – |
| 2 | Ballyfermot Dublin | 6.8 | 8.7% | 0% | – |
| 3 | Cork City Centre Cork | 6.7 | 1.5% | 1.8% | – |
| 4 | St Luke's Cork | 6 | 3.5% | 2.8% | – |
| 5 | Farranree Cork | 6 | 3% | 0.5% | – |
| 6 | Montenotte Cork | 5.5 | 5.6% | 3.5% | – |
| 7 | Newcastle Galway | 5.4 | 1.7% | 15% | 29% |
| 8 | Shanakiel Cork | 5.3 | 5.7% | 0.1% | – |
| 9 | Mervue Galway | 4.3 | 3.6% | 11% | 25% |
| 10 | Tivoli Cork | 4 | 7% | 4.8% | – |
| 11 | Prospect and Newtown Pery Limerick | 3.6 | 1.5% | 9.9% | – |
| 12 | Limerick City Centre Limerick | 3.5 | 1% | 11% | – |
| 13 | Rahoon Galway | 2.3 | 2.3% | 27% | 20% |
| 14 | Annacotty Limerick | 2 | 2% | 6.2% | – |
| 15 | Castlegar Galway | 1.8 | 1.4% | 16% | 16% |
| 16 | Rathbane Limerick | 1.8 | 1.1% | 6% | – |
| 17 | Ballinacurra Limerick | 1.8 | 1.4% | 11% | – |
| 18 | Glanmire Cork | 1.7 | 13% | 6.6% | – |
| 19 | Westbury Clare | 1.7 | 3.3% | 9.6% | – |
| 20 | Crosshaven Cork | 1.2 | 8.9% | 0.4% | 44% |
| 21 | Rathnew Wicklow | 1.2 | 1.3% | 3.9% | 17% |
| 22 | Cleaboy Waterford | 1.2 | 0% | 5.8% | – |
| 23 | Lehenagh Cork | 1.2 | 2.5% | 0.3% | – |
| 24 | Enfield Meath | 1.1 | 3.9% | 0% | – |
| 25 | Grange Waterford | 1 | 0.8% | 5% | – |
| 26 | Cahir Tipperary | 1 | 7.5% | 3.4% | – |
| 27 | Castleblayney Monaghan | 1 | 3.8% | 0% | – |
| 28 | Riverstown Cork | 0.8 | 14% | 2.9% | – |
| 29 | Kilcullen Kildare | 0.8 | 5.3% | 0% | – |
| 30 | Kill Kildare | 0.8 | 2.1% | 0% | – |
| 31 | Tower Cork | 0.7 | 13% | 0% | – |
| 32 | Newtownmountkennedy Wicklow | 0.6 | 12% | 4.9% | 6.2% |
| 33 | Courtown Wexford | 0.6 | 8.6% | 0% | 37% |
| 34 | Rathangan Kildare | 0.5 | 4.5% | 0% | – |
| 35 | Claremorris Mayo | 0.4 | 7.1% | 0% | – |
| 36 | Macroom Cork | 0.4 | 4.9% | 3.9% | – |
| 37 | Mitchelstown Cork | 0.3 | 0% | 0% | – |
| 38 | Stamullen Meath | 0.3 | 1.7% | 0.5% | 12% |
| 39 | Clara Offaly | 0.2 | 6.1% | 6.4% | – |
| 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 Kilcullen’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 Kilcullen
The biggest is Camphill nature trail, 2.9 ha (7 acres).
All 7 named parks and woods by size: 22 ha (54 acres) and 2 km of path
Parks & gardens 5.5 haWoods 16 ha
The two biggest, Coillte Forest and New Abbey Woods, are 75% of the named green space. 4 of the 7 are under 2 ha.
Coillte Forest
Wood or forest · 390 m outside town
12 ha
1.3 km south-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
New Abbey Woods
Wood or forest · 310 m outside town
4.8 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
1.3 km eastfrom the centre
Forest Walk
Directionsto a point inside
Valley Park
Park or garden
1.1 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
Centralin the middle of Kilcullen
Valley PathGraveyard Walkway
Directionsto a point inside
Riverside walk
Park or garden
0.5 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Kilcullen
Graveyard Walkway
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 Kilcullen 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 (74%)Further (27%)
Kilcullen74%
Co. Kildare towns79%
Typical Irish town92%
About 1,000 people live further than that. 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 Kilcullen
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 Kilcullen.
National Parks
Wicklow Mountains National Park is 16 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
16 km 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
10 km of footpaths cross Kilcullen
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
10 km
over 12.9 km² of town and the 1 km around it
Woodland
5.3%
about 0.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km², town and 1 km around · mapped on OpenStreetMap
KilcullenCo. Kildare townsTypical Irish town
Footpaths0.8
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
KilcullenCo. Kildare townsTypical Irish town
Woodland5.3%
0%50%100%
Kilcullen has less footpath per km² than 77% of Irish towns and more woodland than 77% 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 Kilcullen
10 km of footpaths are mapped in Kilcullen and the kilometre around it, 0.8 km for every square kilometre (the typical Irish town has 2.1).
No waymarked trail starts within 5 km of Kilcullen; 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.
History
One historic park or garden on the record in Kilcullen
Parks, gardens, walled gardens and demesne walls in the town on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, each with its record.
Demesne walls/gates/railingsCastlemartinfrom 1725National rating (NIAH)
The oldest dated is Castlemartin, from 1725. 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 Kilcullen: 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) | 8.1 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.8 | 16.9 | 16.5 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.5 | 7.6 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 17 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 81 | 65 | 64 | 62 | 61 | 71 | 69 | 77 | 76 | 97 | 99 | 91 |
May is the driest month (61 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7.6 hours of daylight in December, and 99 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. The climate in Kilcullen →
Next door
Next to Kilcullen
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 20 km, coloured by the share of the land within 5 km protected for nature.
AthgarvanCurragh CampNewbridgeDunlavinKildareNaasKilcullen
Under 1%1–10%10–25%25–50%50%+
In Dunlavin, 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 Kilcullen
What is the biggest park in Kilcullen?
Camphill nature trail, 2.9 ha (7 acres). Valley Park (1.1 ha) is second. 7 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
How many people in Kilcullen live near a park?
74% 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 Kilcullen?
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 Kilcullen near a National Park?
The nearest of Ireland’s six National Parks is Wicklow Mountains National Park, 16 km east of the town’s edge; it covers about 223 km².
Which parks in Kilcullen are historic?
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage records one historic park, garden or demesne in the town: Castlemartin.
Sources
Where Kilcullen’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
- 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).