First pick
Dromcollogher Community Park
Park or garden
3.3 ha1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
0.7 km north-westfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
75%near a park
Outdoors in Drumcollogher · parks, paths & countryside
Drumcollogher has more park space per resident than 8 in 10 Irish towns
Parks and playing fields in Drumcollogher add up to 10.9 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical Irish town has 4.1. 5 waymarked trails start within 5 km of Drumcollogher, among them the Dromcollogher Town Park Trail and Broadford Ashford Walking Trails - Gleann na gCapall Loop. 3 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 0.3 for every square kilometre.
Near a park
75%
of residents within 400 m
Typical Irish town: 92%
Green space
10.9 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical Irish town: 4.1 ha
Footpaths
3 km
0.3 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical Irish town: 2.1 km per km²
Protected for nature
0.2%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Drumcollogher?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Room to roam10.9 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 83% of Irish towns.Few mapped footpaths0.3 km of path per km²; the typical Irish town has 2.1.
Drumcollogher’s strongest suit is plenty of park space. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Against other towns
How Drumcollogher 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 walk75%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
27out of 100
Public green space10.9 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
84out of 100
Footpaths0.3 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
4out of 100
Protected for nature0.2%of the land within 5 km
29out of 100
Woodland0.1%of the town and 1 km around it, as mapped
2out 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
Drumcollogher has the 8th fewest footpaths per km² of 40 towns its size
The 40 Irish towns nearest in population (509 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 Sixmilebridge (0 km per km²).
Footpath, km per km²
Drumcollogher0.3
Towns its size0.7
Co. Limerick towns2.5
Typical Irish town2.1
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Drumcollogher10.9
Towns its size4.1
Co. Limerick towns4.7
Typical Irish town4.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Drumcollogher75%
Towns its size83%
Co. Limerick towns91%
Typical Irish town92%
Against towns its size, Drumcollogher stands out most for park space per resident: only 8 of the other 39 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 32 of the 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 | Drumcollogher Limerick | 0.3 | 0.1% | 0.2% | – |
| 34 | Baltinglass Wicklow | 0.2 | 4.9% | 0.5% | – |
| 35 | Ballyhaunis Mayo | 0.2 | 2.8% | 3.4% | – |
| 36 | Kilrush Clare | 0.2 | 9.8% | 37% | – |
| 37 | Ballyjamesduff Cavan | 0.2 | 7.6% | 0% | – |
| 38 | Gort Galway | 0.2 | 4.3% | 24% | – |
| 39 | Carndonagh Donegal | 0.1 | 4.9% | 5.1% | 5.8% |
| 40 | Sixmilebridge Clare | 0 | 0.7% | 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 Drumcollogher’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 Drumcollogher
The biggest is Dromcollogher Community Park, 3.3 ha (8 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
8 in 10 Drumcollogher 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 (75%)Further (25%)
Drumcollogher75%
Co. Limerick towns91%
Typical Irish town92%
About 100 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
Protected areas
Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC is the nearest protected area, 4.5 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 Drumcollogher0%
Within 5 km0.2%
Co. Limerick towns9.6%
Typical Irish town1.8%
One protected site lies within 5 km of Drumcollogher. Ireland’s National Parks have a block of their own on this page; much of their land also lies inside these sites.
Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SACSpecial Area of Conservation · 103 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
Killarney National Park is 51 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
Killarney National Park
51 km south-west104 km²
National Park
Burren National Park
69 km north21 km²
2 of Ireland’s six National Parks are within 100 km of Drumcollogher.
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
3 km of footpaths cross Drumcollogher
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
2.6 km
over 9.7 km² of town and the 1 km around it
Woodland
0.1%
about 0 km² of mapped woods
Registered trails
5
walking trails within 5 km
Km per km², town and 1 km around · mapped on OpenStreetMap
DrumcollogherCo. Limerick townsTypical Irish town
Footpaths0.3
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
DrumcollogherCo. Limerick townsTypical Irish town
Woodland0.1%
0%50%100%
Drumcollogher has less footpath per km² than 96% of Irish towns and less woodland than 98% of Irish towns.
Footpaths and woods: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Woods are mapped cover, private and Coillte forests included.
Footpaths & trails
5 waymarked trails start near Drumcollogher
3 km of footpaths are mapped in Drumcollogher and the kilometre around it, 0.3 km for every square kilometre (the typical Irish town has 2.1).
Walking trail
Dromcollogher Town Park Trail1.0 km
Broadford Ashford Walking Trails - Gleann na gCapall Loop9.5 km
Broadford Ashford Walking Trails - Broadford-Ashford Way19.0 km
Broadford Ashford Walking Trails - Gleann Beag Loop6.7 km
Broadford Ashford Walking Trails - Killagholehane Way2.2 km
For a shorter walk, the Broadford Ashford Walking Trails - Gleann na gCapall Loop is 9.5 km, graded moderate.
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 Drumcollogher: 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) | 8.2 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.7 | 16.8 | 16.3 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.7 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 124 | 97 | 82 | 73 | 67 | 70 | 74 | 80 | 80 | 111 | 122 | 131 |
May is the driest month (67 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7.7 hours of daylight in December, and 131 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. The climate in Drumcollogher →
Next door
Next to Drumcollogher
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 20 km, coloured by the share of the land within 5 km protected for nature.
CharlevilleNewmarketNewcastle WestKanturkDrumcollogher
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drumcollogher | 75% | 10.9 | 0.3 | 0.2% |
| Charleville 15 km | 65% | 3.2 | 0.0 | 0.2% |
| Newmarket 15 km | 0% | 2.3 | 0.3 | 6.5% |
| Newcastle West 16 km | 87% | 1.3 | 0.5 | 7% |
| Kanturk 17 km | 72% | 2.2 | 0.3 | 5.1% |
In Newcastle West, 87% 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 Drumcollogher
What is the biggest park in Drumcollogher?
Dromcollogher Community Park, 3.3 ha (8 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is there protected countryside near Drumcollogher?
One protected site lies within 5 km, though it covers under 1% of the land. The nearest is Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC, 4.5 km from the edge of town.
What are the best walks near Drumcollogher?
5 waymarked trails start within 5 km, including the Dromcollogher Town Park Trail, Broadford Ashford Walking Trails - Gleann na gCapall Loop and Broadford Ashford Walking Trails - Broadford-Ashford Way.
How many people in Drumcollogher live near a park?
75% 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 Drumcollogher?
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 Drumcollogher near a National Park?
The nearest of Ireland’s six National Parks is Killarney National Park, 51 km south-west of the town’s edge; it covers about 104 km². One more is within 100 km.
Sources
Where Drumcollogher’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
- 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).