First pick
The Royal Canal Park
Park or garden
1.3 ha0.3 km of path
0.7 km westfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Scaramanga731 · CC BY-SA 4.0100%near a park
Outdoors in Enfield · parks, paths & countryside
The National Famine Way runs through Enfield
3 waymarked trails start within 5 km of Enfield, among them the National Famine Way and Royal Canal Way. Parks and playing fields in Enfield add up to 2.4 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical Irish town has 4.1. Footpaths add up to 10 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 1.1 for every square kilometre.
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical Irish town: 92%
Green space
2.4 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical Irish town: 4.1 ha
Footpaths
10 km
1.1 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical Irish town: 2.1 km per km²
Woodland
3.9%
of the town and 1 km around it
Typical Irish town: 2.7%
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Enfield?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
On a long-distance trailThe National Famine Way passes through.A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.
Enfield’s strongest suit is the National Famine Way, followed by parks close to every home.
Against other towns
How Enfield 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 walk100%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
83out of 100
Public green space2.4 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
29out of 100
Footpaths1.1 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
32out of 100
Protected for nature0%of the land within 5 km
11out of 100
Woodland3.9%of the town and 1 km around it, as mapped
67out 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
Enfield has the 17th fewest footpaths per km² of 40 towns its size
The 40 Irish towns nearest in population (3,124 to 4,278 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Shandon (7.3 km per km²) to Charleville (0 km per km²).
Footpath, km per km²
Enfield1.1
Towns its size1.2
Co. Meath towns1.3
Typical Irish town2.1
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Enfield2.4
Towns its size4.5
Co. Meath towns2.3
Typical Irish town4.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Enfield100%
Towns its size85%
Co. Meath towns95%
Typical Irish town92%
Against towns its size, Enfield stands out most for homes near a park: none of the other 39 has more. It falls furthest behind on park space per resident, where 30 of the others do better.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | The sea | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shandon Cork | 7.3 | 1.9% | 0.9% | – |
| 2 | Ballyfermot Dublin | 6.8 | 8.7% | 0% | – |
| 3 | Cork City Centre Cork | 6.7 | 1.5% | 1.8% | – |
| 4 | Blackpool Cork | 6.6 | 3% | 1.4% | – |
| 5 | St Luke's Cork | 6 | 3.5% | 2.8% | – |
| 6 | Farranree Cork | 6 | 3% | 0.5% | – |
| 7 | Montenotte Cork | 5.5 | 5.6% | 3.5% | – |
| 8 | Newcastle Galway | 5.4 | 1.7% | 15% | 29% |
| 9 | Shanakiel Cork | 5.3 | 5.7% | 0.1% | – |
| 10 | Taylor's Hill Galway | 5.1 | 1.2% | 15% | 37% |
| 11 | Mervue Galway | 4.3 | 3.6% | 11% | 25% |
| 12 | Prospect and Newtown Pery Limerick | 3.6 | 1.5% | 9.9% | – |
| 13 | Limerick City Centre Limerick | 3.5 | 1% | 11% | – |
| 14 | Rahoon Galway | 2.3 | 2.3% | 27% | 20% |
| 15 | Annacotty Limerick | 2 | 2% | 6.2% | – |
| 16 | Rathbane Limerick | 1.8 | 1.1% | 6% | – |
| 17 | Ballinacurra Limerick | 1.8 | 1.4% | 11% | – |
| 18 | Westbury Clare | 1.7 | 3.3% | 9.6% | – |
| 19 | Crosshaven Cork | 1.2 | 8.9% | 0.4% | 44% |
| 20 | Rathnew Wicklow | 1.2 | 1.3% | 3.9% | 17% |
| 21 | Cleaboy Waterford | 1.2 | 0% | 5.8% | – |
| 22 | Lehenagh Cork | 1.2 | 2.5% | 0.3% | – |
| 23 | Virginia Cavan | 1.1 | 18% | 0.2% | – |
| 24 | Enfield Meath | 1.1 | 3.9% | 0% | – |
| 25 | Grange Waterford | 1 | 0.8% | 5% | – |
| 26 | Cahir Tipperary | 1 | 7.5% | 3.4% | – |
| 27 | Castleblayney Monaghan | 1 | 3.8% | 0% | – |
| 28 | Riverstown Cork | 0.8 | 14% | 2.9% | – |
| 29 | Kilcullen Kildare | 0.8 | 5.3% | 0% | – |
| 30 | Kill Kildare | 0.8 | 2.1% | 0% | – |
| 31 | Tower Cork | 0.7 | 13% | 0% | – |
| 32 | Newtownmountkennedy Wicklow | 0.6 | 12% | 4.9% | 6.2% |
| 33 | Rathangan Kildare | 0.5 | 4.5% | 0% | – |
| 34 | Claremorris Mayo | 0.4 | 7.1% | 0% | – |
| 35 | Macroom Cork | 0.4 | 4.9% | 3.9% | – |
| 36 | Mitchelstown Cork | 0.3 | 0% | 0% | – |
| 37 | Stamullen Meath | 0.3 | 1.7% | 0.5% | 12% |
| 38 | Ballinrobe Mayo | 0.3 | 0.5% | 11% | – |
| 39 | Clara Offaly | 0.2 | 6.1% | 6.4% | – |
| 40 | Charleville Cork | 0 | 0.3% | 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 Enfield’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 Enfield
The biggest is The Royal Canal Park, 1.3 ha (3 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
Everyone in Enfield lives 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 (100%)Further (0%)
Enfield100%
Co. Meath towns95%
Typical Irish town92%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
Protected areas
No protected site lies within 5 km of Enfield
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 Enfield.
National Parks
Wicklow Mountains National Park is 35 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
35 km south-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
10 km of footpaths cross Enfield
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
10 km
over 9.6 km² of town and the 1 km around it
Woodland
3.9%
about 0.4 km² of mapped woods
Registered trails
3
walking trails within 5 km
Km per km², town and 1 km around · mapped on OpenStreetMap
EnfieldCo. Meath townsTypical Irish town
Footpaths1.1
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
EnfieldCo. Meath townsTypical Irish town
Woodland3.9%
0%50%100%
Enfield has less footpath per km² than 68% of Irish towns and more woodland than 67% of Irish towns.
Footpaths and woods: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Woods are mapped cover, private and Coillte forests included.
Footpaths & trails
3 waymarked trails start near Enfield
10 km of footpaths are mapped in Enfield and the kilometre around it, 1.1 km for every square kilometre (the typical Irish town has 2.1).
Long-distance wayGreenway
National Famine Way168.6 km
Royal Canal Way146.3 km
Royal Canal Greenway Walking Trail121.4 km
The National Famine Way (169 km end to end) passes through Enfield. One cycling or paddling trail also starts within 5 km.
One more waymarked walk on OpenStreetMap
National
The Royal Canal Way6.3 km
Trails: Sport Ireland National Trails Register (CC BY 4.0), registered trails within 5 km; footpaths: OpenStreetMap (ODbL). More waymarked walks: OpenStreetMap route relations (ODbL) within 2 km, those already on the register left out. 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 Enfield: 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 | 15.9 | 17.0 | 16.5 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 17 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 78 | 64 | 59 | 60 | 60 | 70 | 72 | 78 | 72 | 90 | 92 | 85 |
March is the driest month (59 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7.5 hours of daylight in December, and 92 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. The climate in Enfield →
Things to do
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
Picnic sites 2
Plus 2 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Playgrounds 1
Plus 1 playground without a name on the map.
Slipways 1
Plus 1 slipway without a name on the map.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Unnamed places are counted, not listed.
Next door
Next to Enfield
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 20 km, coloured by the share of the land within 5 km protected for nature.
LongwoodKilcockDerrinturnCoill Dubh (Blackwood)AllenwoodProsperousEnfield
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enfield | 100% | 2.4 | 1.1 | 0% |
| Longwood 7.9 km | 100% | 2.2 | 0.5 | 1.2% |
| Kilcock 11 km | 97% | 2.4 | 1.7 | 0% |
| Derrinturn 11 km | 39% | 1.3 | 0.1 | 1.4% |
| Coill Dubh (Blackwood) 13 km | 29% | 1.0 | 0.0 | 3% |
| Allenwood 14 km | 41% | 2.5 | 0.3 | 2.8% |
| Prosperous 14 km | 63% | 2.2 | 0.2 | 3% |
None of the neighbours has many more of its people near a park than Enfield.
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 Enfield
What is the biggest park in Enfield?
The Royal Canal Park, 1.3 ha (3 acres). 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
What are the best walks near Enfield?
3 waymarked trails start within 5 km, including the National Famine Way, Royal Canal Way and Royal Canal Greenway Walking Trail.
How many people in Enfield live near a park?
100% 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 Enfield?
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 Enfield near a National Park?
The nearest of Ireland’s six National Parks is Wicklow Mountains National Park, 35 km south-east of the town’s edge; it covers about 223 km².
What is there to do outdoors around Enfield?
Within 2 km, OpenStreetMap maps 2 picnic sites; the named ones are listed under Things to do, with directions.
Sources
Where Enfield’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).