First pick
childrens playground
Park or garden
0.3 ha
Centralin the middle of Mountmellick
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Oliver Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.071%near a park
Outdoors in Mountmellick · parks, paths & countryside
Mountmellick borders River Barrow and River Nore SAC
Protected sites cover 3.4% of the land within 5 km; the nearest is River Barrow and River Nore SAC. 5 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 0.3 for every square kilometre. 2 waymarked trails start within 5 km of Mountmellick, among them the Garryhinch - Garryhinch loop and Garryhinch - Barrow walk.
Near a park
71%
of residents within 400 m
Typical Irish town: 92%
Green space
1.4 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical Irish town: 4.1 ha
Footpaths
5 km
0.3 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical Irish town: 2.1 km per km²
Protected for nature
3.4%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: River Barrow and River Nore SAC
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Mountmellick?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Protected land nearbyRiver Barrow and River Nore SAC reaches the edge of Mountmellick.Few mapped footpaths0.3 km of path per km²; the typical Irish town has 2.1.
Mountmellick’s strongest suit is protected land close by. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Against other towns
How Mountmellick 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 walk71%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
22out of 100
Public green space1.4 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
10out of 100
Footpaths0.3 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
7out of 100
Protected for nature3.4%of the land within 5 km
60out of 100
Woodland0.5%of the town and 1 km around it, as mapped
8out 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
Mountmellick has the 5th fewest footpaths per km² of 40 towns its size
The 40 Irish towns nearest in population (4,365 to 5,552 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
Mountmellick0.3
Towns its size1.6
Co. Laois towns0.6
Typical Irish town2.1
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Mountmellick1.4
Towns its size4.0
Co. Laois towns1.4
Typical Irish town4.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Mountmellick71%
Towns its size80%
Co. Laois towns71%
Typical Irish town92%
Mountmellick falls furthest behind on path per km², where 35 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 | Ballyboden Dublin | 5.9 | 4.3% | 0.5% | – |
| 5 | Edmondstown Dublin | 5.1 | 7.5% | 4.5% | – |
| 6 | Ballinlough Cork | 4.9 | 3.2% | 3.8% | – |
| 7 | Tramore Cork | 4.7 | 4.6% | 3.7% | – |
| 8 | Knockrea Cork | 4.7 | 3.1% | 3.7% | – |
| 9 | Saggart Dublin | 4.6 | 2% | 0% | – |
| 10 | Woodquay and Nuns Island Galway | 4.5 | 0.7% | 14% | 32% |
| 11 | Inchicore Dublin | 4.5 | 3.9% | 0% | – |
| 12 | Dangan Galway | 4.3 | 3.9% | 18% | 21% |
| 13 | Bohernabreena Dublin | 4.3 | 2.9% | 5% | – |
| 14 | Tivoli Cork | 4 | 7% | 4.8% | – |
| 15 | Fair Hill Cork | 4 | 4.4% | 0.4% | – |
| 16 | Garryowen Limerick | 3.4 | 0.5% | 9.6% | – |
| 17 | Salthill Galway | 3.3 | 1% | 15% | 46% |
| 18 | Galvone Limerick | 2.9 | 0.7% | 8.3% | – |
| 19 | Poleberry Waterford | 2.4 | 0.6% | 7.2% | – |
| 20 | Glanmire Cork | 1.7 | 13% | 6.6% | – |
| 21 | Kilcoole Wicklow | 1.5 | 4.3% | 5.8% | 37% |
| 22 | Glounthaune Cork | 1.2 | 8% | 6.1% | – |
| 23 | Athenry Galway | 1.2 | 1.2% | 0% | – |
| 24 | Newcastle Dublin | 1.1 | 0.9% | 0% | – |
| 25 | Inishkenny Cork | 1.1 | 4.2% | 0.2% | – |
| 26 | Ballybeg Waterford | 1 | 1.2% | 4.1% | – |
| 27 | Ardee Louth | 0.9 | 0.7% | 0.8% | – |
| 28 | Birr Offaly | 0.8 | 14% | 5.2% | – |
| 29 | Monasterevin Kildare | 0.6 | 16% | 2% | – |
| 30 | Courtown Wexford | 0.6 | 8.6% | 0% | 37% |
| 31 | Duleek Meath | 0.4 | 0.1% | 1.3% | – |
| 32 | Cashel Tipperary | 0.4 | 1.8% | 1.4% | – |
| 33 | Ballybofey-Stranorlar Donegal | 0.4 | 7.7% | 2.3% | – |
| 34 | Listowel Kerry | 0.4 | 2.3% | 4.8% | – |
| 35 | Tipperary Tipperary | 0.3 | 0.7% | 0.8% | – |
| 36 | Mountmellick Laois | 0.3 | 0.5% | 3.4% | – |
| 37 | Tullow Carlow | 0.3 | 0.4% | 1.7% | – |
| 38 | Roscrea Tipperary | 0.3 | 3.4% | 7.9% | – |
| 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 Mountmellick’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 Mountmellick
The biggest is childrens playground, 0.3 ha (1 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
7 in 10 Mountmellick 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 (71%)Further (29%)
Mountmellick71%
Co. Laois towns71%
Typical Irish town92%
About 1,400 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 Mountmellick
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 Mountmellick3.6%
Within 5 km3.4%
Co. Laois towns1.6%
Typical Irish town1.8%
4 protected sites lie within 5 km of Mountmellick. Ireland’s National Parks have a block of their own on this page; much of their land also lies inside these sites.
River Barrow and River Nore SACSpecial Area of Conservation · 124 km² · reaches Mountmellick
NPWS pageMountmellick SACSpecial Area of Conservation · 0.0 km² · 2.3 km from the edge
NPWS pageClonreher Bog NHANatural Heritage Area · 1.8 km² · 2.7 km from the edge
NPWS pageSlieve Bloom Mountains SPASpecial Protection Area (birds) · 158 km² · 4.5 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 52 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
52 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
5 km of footpaths cross Mountmellick
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
5.5 km
over 17.7 km² of town and the 1 km around it
Woodland
0.5%
about 0.1 km² of mapped woods
Registered trails
2
walking trails within 5 km
Km per km², town and 1 km around · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MountmellickCo. Laois townsTypical Irish town
Footpaths0.3
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MountmellickCo. Laois townsTypical Irish town
Woodland0.5%
0%50%100%
Mountmellick has less footpath per km² than 93% of Irish towns and less woodland than 92% 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 Mountmellick
5 km of footpaths are mapped in Mountmellick and the kilometre around it, 0.3 km for every square kilometre (the typical Irish town has 2.1).
Walking trail
Garryhinch - Garryhinch loop3.7 km
Garryhinch - Barrow walk3.3 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 Mountmellick: 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 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 91 | 71 | 66 | 63 | 63 | 71 | 71 | 81 | 73 | 98 | 98 | 96 |
May is the driest month (63 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7.6 hours of daylight in December, and 98 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. The climate in Mountmellick →
Things to do
1 hill or peak and 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
Hills and peaks 1
Wood Hill0.5 km from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 1
Plus 1 playground without a name on the map.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Unnamed places are counted, not listed.
Next door
Next to Mountmellick
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 20 km, coloured by the share of the land within 5 km protected for nature.
PortlaoisePortarlingtonMountrathStradballyMonasterevinMountmellick
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountmellick | 71% | 1.4 | 0.3 | 3.4% |
| Portlaoise 8.8 km | 86% | 1.6 | 0.6 | 1.1% |
| Portarlington 10 km | 65% | 0.8 | 0.8 | 1.6% |
| Mountrath 16 km | 57% | 0.9 | 0.1 | 8.2% |
| Stradbally 17 km | 65% | 2.8 | 0.6 | 1.1% |
| Monasterevin 18 km | 78% | 1.7 | 0.6 | 2% |
In Portlaoise, 86% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park, more than here. Stradbally has at least twice Mountmellick’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 Mountmellick
What is the biggest park in Mountmellick?
childrens playground, 0.3 ha (1 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is there protected countryside near Mountmellick?
Yes: 3.4% of the land within 5 km is protected, across 4 sites. River Barrow and River Nore SAC reaches Mountmellick.
What are the best walks near Mountmellick?
2 waymarked trails start within 5 km, including the Garryhinch - Garryhinch loop and Garryhinch - Barrow walk.
How many people in Mountmellick live near a park?
71% 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 Mountmellick?
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 Mountmellick near a National Park?
The nearest of Ireland’s six National Parks is Wicklow Mountains National Park, 52 km east of the town’s edge; it covers about 223 km².
What is there to do outdoors around Mountmellick?
Within 2 km, OpenStreetMap maps 1 hill or peak; the named ones are listed under Things to do, with directions.
Sources
Where Mountmellick’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).