First pick
Russell Park
Park or garden · 150 m outside town
14 ha1.3 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.3 km of path
1.8 km south-eastfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: N Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.069%near a park
Outdoors in Caherdavin · parks, paths & countryside
Caherdavin borders Lower River Shannon SAC
12% of the land within 5 km is protected for nature, the nearest site being Lower River Shannon SAC. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 69% of residents. Parks and playing fields in Caherdavin add up to 6.5 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical Irish town has 4.1.
Near a park
69%
of residents within 400 m
Typical Irish town: 92%
Green space
6.5 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical Irish town: 4.1 ha
Footpaths
34 km
1.2 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical Irish town: 2.1 km per km²
Protected for nature
12%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Lower River Shannon SAC
Woodland
3.4%
of the town and 1 km around it
Typical Irish town: 2.7%
Character
What kind of outdoors neighbourhood is Caherdavin?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Protected land nearbyLower River Shannon SAC reaches the edge of Caherdavin.Parks can be a walk away31% of residents live more than 400 m from a park or playing field.
Caherdavin’s strongest suit is protected land close by. Where it falls short is how far some homes are from a park.
Against other towns
How Caherdavin 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 walk69%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
19out of 100
Public green space6.5 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
67out of 100
Footpaths1.2 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
37out of 100
Protected for nature12%of the land within 5 km
92out of 100
Woodland3.4%of the town and 1 km around it, as mapped
59out 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
Caherdavin has the 14th fewest footpaths per km² of 40 towns its size
The 40 Irish towns nearest in population (6,322 to 8,564 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).
Footpath, km per km²
Caherdavin1.2
Towns its size2.3
Co. Limerick towns2.5
Typical Irish town2.1
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Caherdavin6.5
Towns its size3.4
Co. Limerick towns4.7
Typical Irish town4.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Caherdavin69%
Towns its size96%
Co. Limerick towns91%
Typical Irish town92%
Against towns its size, Caherdavin stands out most for park space per resident: only 11 of the other 39 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 26 of the 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 | Temple Bar Dublin | 7.9 | 1.1% | 0.1% | 6.2% |
| 3 | Christchurch Dublin | 7.8 | 0.7% | 0.1% | – |
| 4 | South Gate Cork | 6.8 | 1% | 1.3% | – |
| 5 | Grand Canal Dock Dublin | 6.6 | 0.9% | 1.4% | 16% |
| 6 | Castleknock Dublin | 6.2 | 9.1% | 0% | – |
| 7 | Dubber Dublin | 5.7 | 2.1% | 0% | – |
| 8 | Ballybough Dublin | 5.5 | 1.4% | 1% | 9% |
| 9 | Booterstown Dublin | 5.4 | 2.2% | 0.2% | 29% |
| 10 | Turner's Cross Cork | 5.3 | 2.5% | 1.3% | – |
| 11 | Clongriffin Dublin | 5 | 0.2% | 6.6% | 31% |
| 12 | Cherry Orchard Dublin | 4.6 | 0.5% | 0% | – |
| 13 | Santry Dublin | 4.4 | 2.8% | 0% | – |
| 14 | Baldoyle Dublin | 3.7 | 0.3% | 11% | 40% |
| 15 | Perrystown Dublin | 3.6 | 1.8% | 0% | – |
| 16 | Eyre Square Galway | 3.4 | 1.2% | 14% | 36% |
| 17 | Farranshone Limerick | 2.8 | 1.5% | 11% | – |
| 18 | Walkinstown Dublin | 2.8 | 0.3% | 0% | – |
| 19 | Dalkey Dublin | 2.6 | 3.5% | 0.2% | 60% |
| 20 | Kinsealy-Drinan Dublin | 2.3 | 1.8% | 1.1% | 8.3% |
| 21 | Howth Dublin | 2.2 | 2.4% | 18% | 75% |
| 22 | Dunboyne Meath | 2.2 | 2.5% | 0.4% | – |
| 23 | Frankfield and Grange Cork | 2.1 | 4.3% | 2.1% | – |
| 24 | Dunshaughlin Meath | 1.5 | 0.4% | 0% | – |
| 25 | Monaghan Monaghan | 1.3 | 8.7% | 0% | – |
| 26 | Kells Meath | 1.3 | 6.3% | 1.1% | – |
| 27 | Caherdavin Limerick | 1.2 | 3.4% | 12% | – |
| 28 | Westport Mayo | 1.2 | 7.1% | 3.3% | 10% |
| 29 | Ballytruckle Waterford | 1 | 1.2% | 5.1% | – |
| 30 | Youghal Cork | 0.9 | 0.6% | 13% | 29% |
| 31 | Fermoy Cork | 0.8 | 6.3% | 4.8% | – |
| 32 | Clane Kildare | 0.6 | 1.9% | 1.5% | – |
| 33 | Thurles Tipperary | 0.5 | 2.8% | 1.2% | – |
| 34 | Newcastle West Limerick | 0.5 | 1.5% | 7% | – |
| 35 | Bandon Cork | 0.4 | 5.6% | 0% | – |
| 36 | Edenderry Offaly | 0.4 | 7% | 1.7% | – |
| 37 | Loughrea Galway | 0.4 | 1.7% | 4.7% | – |
| 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% | – |
The map
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Caherdavin’s neighbourhood.
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 Caherdavin
The biggest is Russell Park, 14 ha (35 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 Caherdavin 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 (69%)Further (31%)
Caherdavin69%
Co. Limerick towns91%
Typical Irish town92%
About 2,300 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
Protected areas
The 3 protected sites within 5 km of Caherdavin
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 Caherdavin12%
Within 5 km12%
Co. Limerick towns9.6%
Typical Irish town1.8%
3 protected sites lie within 5 km of Caherdavin. Proposed Natural Heritage Areas cover 7.9% 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.
Protected 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
Burren National Park is 37 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
Burren National Park
37 km north-west21 km²
National Park
Killarney National Park
86 km south-west104 km²
2 of Ireland’s six National Parks are within 100 km of Caherdavin.
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
34 km of footpaths cross Caherdavin
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
34 km
over 27.7 km² of town and the 1 km around it
Woodland
3.4%
about 0.9 km² of mapped woods
Registered trails
1
walking trails within 5 km
Km per km², town and 1 km around · mapped on OpenStreetMap
CaherdavinCo. Limerick townsTypical Irish town
Footpaths1.2
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
CaherdavinCo. Limerick townsTypical Irish town
Woodland3.4%
0%50%100%
Caherdavin has less footpath per km² than 63% of Irish towns and more woodland than 59% of Irish towns.
Footpaths and woods: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Woods are mapped cover, private and Coillte forests included.
Footpaths & trails
One waymarked trail starts near Caherdavin
34 km of footpaths are mapped in Caherdavin and the kilometre around it, 1.2 km for every square kilometre (the typical Irish town has 2.1).
Walking trail
Lough Derg Way68.9 km
For a shorter walk, the Lough Derg Way is 68.9 km, graded moderate. 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 Caherdavin: 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 | 15.7 | 16.8 | 16.4 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.6 | 7.6 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 105 | 87 | 78 | 64 | 66 | 75 | 80 | 92 | 80 | 99 | 109 | 116 |
April is the driest month (64 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7.6 hours of daylight in December, and 116 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. The climate in Caherdavin →
Things to do
1 waterfall 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
Waterfalls 1
Curragower Falls2.0 km from town
DirectionsNature reserves 1
Coonagh Nature43 ha · in town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 4
Plus 4 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 Caherdavin
Gardens, national parks, nature sites and islands within 15 km of the town’s edge, each with its own page.
Shannon Estuary WayNature site · 2.3 km from town
Its pagePlaces to visit: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0), OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.
Next door
Next to Caherdavin
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 20 km, coloured by the share of the land within 5 km protected for nature.
BallynantyFarranshoneDockLimerick City CentreBallinacurraCorbally and King's IslandCaherdavin
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caherdavin | 69% | 6.5 | 1.2 | 12% |
| Ballynanty 1.3 km | 100% | 4.7 | 2.5 | 12% |
| Farranshone 1.5 km | 100% | 5.2 | 2.8 | 11% |
| Dock 2.7 km | 100% | 5.9 | 2.5 | 12% |
| Limerick City Centre 2.8 km | 100% | 10.3 | 3.5 | 11% |
| Ballinacurra 3.2 km | 85% | 14.0 | 1.8 | 11% |
| Corbally and King's Island 3.2 km | 91% | 2.2 | 3.0 | 9.5% |
In Ballynanty, 100% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park, more than here. Ballinacurra has at least twice Caherdavin’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 Caherdavin
What is the biggest park in Caherdavin?
Russell Park, 14 ha (35 acres), just outside the built-up area. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the neighbourhood or within 400 m of it.
Is there protected countryside near Caherdavin?
Yes: 12% of the land within 5 km is protected, across 3 sites. Lower River Shannon SAC reaches Caherdavin.
What are the best walks near Caherdavin?
One waymarked trail starts within 5 km: the Lough Derg Way.
How many people in Caherdavin live near a park?
69% 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 Caherdavin?
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 Caherdavin near a National Park?
The nearest of Ireland’s six National Parks is Burren National Park, 37 km north-west of the town’s edge; it covers about 21 km². One more is within 100 km.
What is there to do outdoors around Caherdavin?
Within 2 km, OpenStreetMap maps 1 waterfall and 1 nature reserve; the named ones are listed under Things to do, with directions.
Sources
Where Caherdavin’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).