First pick
Kilteel Wood
Wood or forest
5.1 ha
Centralin the middle of Kilteel
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Mike Searle · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
Outdoors in Kilteel · parks, paths & countryside
From Kilteel, Cupidstown Hill (379 m) is under 2 km away
Wicklow Mountains National Park begins 8.1 km away. 0 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 0.0 for every square kilometre. There are 0.7 ha of parks and playing fields for every 1,000 people in Kilteel, against 4.1 in the typical Irish town.
Green space
0.7 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical Irish town: 4.1 ha
Protected for nature
0.2%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Red Bog, Kildare SAC
Woodland
7.6%
of the town and 1 km around it
Typical Irish town: 2.7%
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Kilteel?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Countryside close byWicklow Mountains National Park starts 8.1 km south.Hills close byCupidstown Hill, 379 m, is within 2 km.Parks can be a walk away100% of residents live more than 400 m from a park or playing field.
Kilteel’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 Kilteel 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 walk0%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
0out of 100
Public green space0.7 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
1out of 100
Footpaths0.0 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
0out of 100
Protected for nature0.2%of the land within 5 km
29out of 100
Woodland7.6%of the town and 1 km around it, as mapped
88out 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
Kilteel has the fewest footpaths per km² of 40 towns its size
The 40 Irish towns nearest in population (262 to 3,141 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Ballybrack (8.6 km per km²) to Kilteel (0 km per km²).
Footpath, km per km²
Kilteel0.0
Towns its size0.7
Co. Kildare towns1.0
Typical Irish town2.1
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Kilteel0.7
Towns its size3.8
Co. Kildare towns2.2
Typical Irish town4.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Kilteel0%
Towns its size83%
Co. Kildare towns79%
Typical Irish town92%
Kilteel falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 39 of the 39 others do better.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | The sea | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ballybrack Dublin | 8.6 | 8% | 0.2% | 36% |
| 2 | Sunday's Well Cork | 7.3 | 2.7% | 0.4% | – |
| 3 | Blackpool Cork | 6.6 | 3% | 1.4% | – |
| 4 | Carna Dublin | 5.4 | 1.7% | 0% | – |
| 5 | Taylor's Hill Galway | 5.1 | 1.2% | 15% | 37% |
| 6 | Togher Cork | 5 | 1.5% | 0.5% | – |
| 7 | Decies Dublin | 4.8 | 7.2% | 0% | – |
| 8 | Mayfield Cork | 4.7 | 5.3% | 3.3% | – |
| 9 | Kylemore Dublin | 4 | 3% | 0% | – |
| 10 | Edenmore Dublin | 2.8 | 3.6% | 5.9% | 24% |
| 11 | Ballynanty Limerick | 2.5 | 5.7% | 12% | – |
| 12 | Claddagh Galway | 2.4 | 0.2% | 17% | 46% |
| 13 | Murrough Galway | 2.3 | 5.1% | 10% | 26% |
| 14 | Grange Upper Waterford | 1.4 | 1.5% | 6.6% | – |
| 15 | Blarney Cork | 1.4 | 14% | 0% | – |
| 16 | Kilbarry Waterford | 1.3 | 1.6% | 5.1% | – |
| 17 | Bantry Cork | 1 | 4.4% | 0% | 18% |
| 18 | Ballina Tipperary | 0.9 | 1.8% | 4.7% | – |
| 19 | Moate Westmeath | 0.7 | 2.4% | 2.4% | – |
| 20 | Callan Kilkenny | 0.7 | 0.1% | 2.3% | – |
| 21 | Kingscourt Cavan | 0.7 | 12% | 0% | – |
| 22 | Kenmare Kerry | 0.6 | 7.2% | 6.5% | 6.4% |
| 23 | Athboy Meath | 0.6 | 1.1% | 1.5% | – |
| 24 | Bundoran Donegal | 0.5 | 2% | 5.1% | 35% |
| 25 | Muinebeag (Bagenalstown) Carlow | 0.5 | 3.9% | 2.9% | – |
| 26 | Skibbereen Cork | 0.5 | 1.7% | 1.6% | – |
| 27 | Kinnegad Westmeath | 0.3 | 4.5% | 4.5% | – |
| 28 | Donegal Donegal | 0.3 | 4% | 4.1% | 12% |
| 29 | Boyle Roscommon | 0.3 | 3.2% | 0% | – |
| 30 | Bailieborough Cavan | 0.3 | 10% | 0% | – |
| 31 | Castleisland Kerry | 0.3 | 1.7% | 12% | – |
| 32 | Kanturk Cork | 0.3 | 0% | 5.1% | – |
| 33 | Baltinglass Wicklow | 0.2 | 4.9% | 0.5% | – |
| 34 | Ballyhaunis Mayo | 0.2 | 2.8% | 3.4% | – |
| 35 | Kilrush Clare | 0.2 | 9.8% | 37% | – |
| 36 | Ballyjamesduff Cavan | 0.2 | 7.6% | 0% | – |
| 37 | Gort Galway | 0.2 | 4.3% | 24% | – |
| 38 | Carndonagh Donegal | 0.1 | 4.9% | 5.1% | 5.8% |
| 39 | Sixmilebridge Clare | 0 | 0.7% | 2% | – |
| 40 | Kilteel Kildare | 0 | 7.6% | 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 Kilteel’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 Kilteel
The biggest is Kilteel Wood, 5.1 ha (13 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
Few Kilteel 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 (0%)Further (100%)
Kilteel0%
Co. Kildare towns79%
Typical Irish town92%
About 300 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
Protected areas
Red Bog, Kildare SAC is the nearest protected area, 3.1 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 Kilteel0%
Within 5 km0.2%
Co. Kildare towns0.5%
Typical Irish town1.8%
One protected site lies within 5 km of Kilteel. Ireland’s National Parks have a block of their own on this page; much of their land also lies inside these sites.
Red Bog, Kildare SACSpecial Area of Conservation · 0.3 km² · 3.1 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 8.1 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
8.1 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
0 km of footpaths cross Kilteel
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
0.0 km
over – km² of town and the 1 km around it
Woodland
7.6%
of the town and 1 km around it
Registered trails
2
walking trails within 5 km
Km per km², town and 1 km around · mapped on OpenStreetMap
KilteelCo. Kildare townsTypical Irish town
Footpaths0
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
KilteelCo. Kildare townsTypical Irish town
Woodland7.6%
0%50%100%
Kilteel has less footpath per km² than 100% of Irish towns and more woodland than 88% of Irish towns.
Footpaths and woods: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Woods are mapped cover, private and Coillte forests included.
Footpaths & trails
2 waymarked trails start near Kilteel
0 km of footpaths are mapped in Kilteel and the kilometre around it, 0.0 km for every square kilometre (the typical Irish town has 2.1).
Walking trail
Slievethoul Lugg Walk6.9 km
Saggart Hill Loop3.4 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 Kilteel: June 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 | 16.9 | 16.5 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 82 | 72 | 66 | 67 | 67 | 79 | 79 | 88 | 83 | 103 | 107 | 95 |
March is the driest month (66 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 7.5 hours of daylight in December, and 107 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. The climate in Kilteel →
Things to do
3 hills and peaks
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.
The highest named top on the map is Cupidstown Hill, at 379 m, 1.7 km from town.
Every named place, with directions
Hills and peaks 3
Cupidstown Hill379 m · 1.7 km from town
DirectionsPlus 2 hills and peaks 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 Kilteel
Gardens, national parks, nature sites and islands within 15 km of the town’s edge, each with its own page.
Hunting Brook GardenGarden · 2.5 km from town
Its pagePlaces to visit: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0), OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.
Next door
Next to Kilteel
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 20 km, coloured by the share of the land within 5 km protected for nature.
KillRathcooleJohnstownNewcastleBlessingtonSaggartKilteel
Under 1%1–10%10–25%25–50%50%+
In Johnstown, 81% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park, more than here. Kill, Rathcoole and Johnstown have at least twice Kilteel’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 Kilteel
Is there protected countryside near Kilteel?
One protected site lies within 5 km, though it covers under 1% of the land. The nearest is Red Bog, Kildare SAC, 3.1 km from the edge of town.
What are the best walks near Kilteel?
2 waymarked trails start within 5 km, including the Slievethoul Lugg Walk and Saggart Hill Loop.
How many people in Kilteel live near a park?
0% 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 Kilteel?
On the town’s 1991–2020 averages and its daylight: June to September, when days are long, highs reach 15 °C and rain is light for the place.
Is Kilteel near a National Park?
The nearest of Ireland’s six National Parks is Wicklow Mountains National Park, 8.1 km south of the town’s edge; it covers about 223 km².
What is there to do outdoors around Kilteel?
Within 2 km, OpenStreetMap maps 3 hills and peaks; the named ones are listed under Things to do, with directions.
Sources
Where Kilteel’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).