Photo: 瑞丽江的河水 · CC BY-SA 4.0Sallins is on the Grand Canal Way
One waymarked trail starts within 5 km of Sallins: the Grand Canal Way. Wicklow Mountains National Park begins 15 km away. There are 0.6 ha of parks and playing fields for every 1,000 people in Sallins, against 4.1 in the typical Irish town.
What kind of outdoors town is Sallins?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Sallins’ strongest suit is the Grand Canal Way, followed by Wicklow Mountains National Park close by. Where it falls short is park space per person.
How Sallins 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.
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.
Sallins has the 19th fewest footpaths per km² of 40 towns its size
The 40 Irish towns nearest in population (5,542 to 7,155 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From O'Connell Street (8.1 km per km²) to Roscommon (0.2 km per km²).
Sallins falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 39 of the 39 others do better.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | The sea | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | O'Connell Street Dublin | 8.1 | 0.6% | 0.1% | 7% |
| 2 | Christchurch Dublin | 7.8 | 0.7% | 0.1% | – |
| 3 | Portobello Dublin | 7.2 | 1.2% | 0.1% | 8.8% |
| 4 | Gillabbey Cork | 7.1 | 2.6% | 0.5% | – |
| 5 | Glasheen Cork | 6.4 | 2.3% | 0.5% | – |
| 6 | Castleknock Dublin | 6.2 | 9.1% | 0% | – |
| 7 | The Glen Cork | 5.7 | 4% | 1.8% | – |
| 8 | Rathgar Dublin | 4.8 | 3.5% | 0.1% | – |
| 9 | Knocknaheeny Cork | 4.7 | 2.4% | 0.2% | – |
| 10 | Santry Dublin | 4.4 | 2.8% | 0% | – |
| 11 | Ayrfield Dublin | 3.8 | 1.8% | 5.3% | 19% |
| 12 | Eyre Square Galway | 3.4 | 1.2% | 14% | 36% |
| 13 | Marino Dublin | 3.3 | 2% | 2.8% | 10% |
| 14 | Harmonstown Dublin | 3.2 | 3.8% | 5.3% | 23% |
| 15 | Dock Limerick | 2.5 | 1.3% | 12% | – |
| 16 | Sutton Dublin | 2.5 | 0.7% | 12% | 48% |
| 17 | Dunboyne Meath | 2.2 | 2.5% | 0.4% | – |
| 18 | Lisduggan Waterford | 1.8 | 0% | 5.8% | – |
| 19 | Carrigtwohill Cork | 1.8 | 5.1% | 12% | – |
| 20 | Ballinfoile and Terryland Galway | 1.7 | 2.1% | 22% | 13% |
| 21 | Rathcoole Dublin | 1.6 | 2.4% | 0% | – |
| 22 | Sallins Kildare | 1.6 | 0.8% | 0% | – |
| 23 | Dunshaughlin Meath | 1.5 | 0.4% | 0% | – |
| 24 | Blessington Wicklow | 1.4 | 10% | 1.9% | – |
| 25 | Kells Meath | 1.3 | 6.3% | 1.1% | – |
| 26 | Westport Mayo | 1.2 | 7.1% | 3.3% | 10% |
| 27 | Passage West-Monkstown Cork | 1.2 | 3.5% | 10% | 12% |
| 28 | Inishkenny Cork | 1.1 | 4.2% | 0.2% | – |
| 29 | Ballytruckle Waterford | 1 | 1.2% | 5.1% | – |
| 30 | Kinsale Cork | 0.9 | 1.3% | 0% | 21% |
| 31 | Ferrybank Kilkenny | 0.8 | 4.1% | 6.6% | – |
| 32 | Fermoy Cork | 0.8 | 6.3% | 4.8% | – |
| 33 | Carrick-on-Suir Tipperary | 0.5 | 9.9% | 4% | – |
| 34 | Loughrea Galway | 0.4 | 1.7% | 4.7% | – |
| 35 | Carrickmacross Monaghan | 0.3 | 5.5% | 0% | – |
| 36 | Roscrea Tipperary | 0.3 | 3.4% | 7.9% | – |
| 37 | Oranmore Galway | 0.3 | 2% | 5.2% | 13% |
| 38 | Ballinasloe Galway | 0.3 | 3.7% | 9.6% | – |
| 39 | Buncrana Donegal | 0.3 | 3.3% | 12% | 23% |
| 40 | Roscommon Roscommon | 0.2 | 2.3% | 3.9% | – |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Sallins’ urban area.
7 in 10 Sallins 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).
About 1,900 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
No protected site lies within 5 km of Sallins
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 Sallins.
Wicklow Mountains National Park is 15 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.
Wicklow Mountains National Park
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).
17 km of footpaths cross Sallins
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+.
Km per km², town and 1 km around · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Sallins has less footpath per km² than 57% of Irish towns and less woodland than 86% of Irish towns.
Footpaths and woods: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Woods are mapped cover, private and Coillte forests included.
One waymarked trail starts near Sallins
17 km of footpaths are mapped in Sallins and the kilometre around it, 1.6 km for every square kilometre (the typical Irish town has 2.1).
The Grand Canal Way (117 km end to end) passes through Sallins.
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.
The best walking months in Sallins: 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 | 16.9 | 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 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 72 | 60 | 56 | 57 | 57 | 68 | 65 | 75 | 69 | 88 | 89 | 82 |
March is the driest month (56 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7.5 hours of daylight in December, and 89 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. The climate in Sallins →
1 hill or peak and 4 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
Playgrounds 4
Plus 4 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Unnamed places are counted, not listed.
Next to Sallins
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 20 km, coloured by the share of the land within 5 km protected for nature.
In Carragh, 100% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park, more than here. Naas, Johnstown and Carragh have at least twice Sallins’ green space per resident.
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 Sallins
What are the best walks near Sallins?
One waymarked trail starts within 5 km: the Grand Canal Way.
How many people in Sallins live near a park?
70% 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 Sallins?
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 Sallins near a National Park?
The nearest of Ireland’s six National Parks is Wicklow Mountains National Park, 15 km south-east of the town’s edge; it covers about 223 km².
What is there to do outdoors around Sallins?
Within 2 km, OpenStreetMap maps 1 hill or peak; the named ones are listed under Things to do, with directions.
Where Sallins’ 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).