First pick
Blundel Park
Park or garden
4.5 ha1.1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.1 km of path
Centralin the middle of Edenderry
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: James Allan · CC BY-SA 2.095%near a park
Outdoors in Edenderry · parks, paths & countryside
The Grand Canal Way runs through Edenderry
One waymarked trail starts within 5 km of Edenderry: the Grand Canal Way. 8 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 0.4 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Edenderry add up to 3.2 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical Irish town has 4.1.
Near a park
95%
of residents within 400 m
Typical Irish town: 92%
Green space
3.2 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical Irish town: 4.1 ha
Footpaths
8 km
0.4 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical Irish town: 2.1 km per km²
Protected for nature
1.7%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Black Castle Bog NHA
Woodland
7%
of the town and 1 km around it
Typical Irish town: 2.7%
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Edenderry?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
On a long-distance trailThe Grand Canal Way passes through.A park on every doorstep95% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Few mapped footpaths0.4 km of path per km²; the typical Irish town has 2.1.
Edenderry’s strongest suit is the Grand Canal Way, followed by parks close to every home. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Against other towns
How Edenderry 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 walk95%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
55out of 100
Public green space3.2 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
41out of 100
Footpaths0.4 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
11out of 100
Protected for nature1.7%of the land within 5 km
49out of 100
Woodland7%of the town and 1 km around it, as mapped
84out 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
Edenderry has the 2nd fewest footpaths per km² of 40 towns its size
The 40 Irish towns nearest in population (6,720 to 9,031 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 Buncrana (0.3 km per km²).
Footpath, km per km²
Edenderry0.4
Towns its size2.3
Co. Offaly towns0.6
Typical Irish town2.1
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Edenderry3.2
Towns its size3.4
Co. Offaly towns4.3
Typical Irish town4.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Edenderry95%
Towns its size97%
Co. Offaly towns78%
Typical Irish town92%
Edenderry falls furthest behind on path per km², where 38 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 | Temple Bar Dublin | 7.9 | 1.1% | 0.1% | 6.2% |
| 3 | Christchurch Dublin | 7.8 | 0.7% | 0.1% | – |
| 4 | Sandyford Dublin | 7.5 | 4.8% | 0.3% | 6.2% |
| 5 | South Gate Cork | 6.8 | 1% | 1.3% | – |
| 6 | Grand Canal Dock Dublin | 6.6 | 0.9% | 1.4% | 16% |
| 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 | Baldoyle Dublin | 3.7 | 0.3% | 11% | 40% |
| 14 | Perrystown Dublin | 3.6 | 1.8% | 0% | – |
| 15 | Eyre Square Galway | 3.4 | 1.2% | 14% | 36% |
| 16 | Raheny Dublin | 3.1 | 2.8% | 11% | 46% |
| 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 | Hollyhill and Ballincolly Cork | 2.1 | 7.2% | 0.5% | – |
| 24 | Frankfield and Grange Cork | 2.1 | 4.3% | 2.1% | – |
| 25 | Kilcock Kildare | 1.7 | 2.8% | 0% | – |
| 26 | Ballyvolane Cork | 1.6 | 6.7% | 2.8% | – |
| 27 | Monaghan Monaghan | 1.3 | 8.7% | 0% | – |
| 28 | Waterford City Centre Waterford | 1.3 | 1.5% | 6% | – |
| 29 | Caherdavin Limerick | 1.2 | 3.4% | 12% | – |
| 30 | Westport Mayo | 1.2 | 7.1% | 3.3% | 10% |
| 31 | Lusk Dublin | 1.1 | 0.6% | 1.3% | 6.4% |
| 32 | Youghal Cork | 0.9 | 0.6% | 13% | 29% |
| 33 | New Ross Wexford | 0.9 | 7.3% | 5.4% | – |
| 34 | Fermoy Cork | 0.8 | 6.3% | 4.8% | – |
| 35 | Clane Kildare | 0.6 | 1.9% | 1.5% | – |
| 36 | Thurles Tipperary | 0.5 | 2.8% | 1.2% | – |
| 37 | Newcastle West Limerick | 0.5 | 1.5% | 7% | – |
| 38 | Bandon Cork | 0.4 | 5.6% | 0% | – |
| 39 | Edenderry Offaly | 0.4 | 7% | 1.7% | – |
| 40 | Buncrana Donegal | 0.3 | 3.3% | 12% | 23% |
The map
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Edenderry’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 Edenderry
The biggest is Blundel Park, 4.5 ha (11 acres).
All 4 named parks and woods by size: 14 ha (33 acres) and 1 km of path
Parks & gardens 14 ha
The two biggest, Blundel Park and Coursing Park, are 65% of the named green space.
Derry Park
Park or garden
2.3 ha0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Edenderry
Directionsto a point inside
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
Almost everyone in Edenderry 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 (95%)Further (4.9%)
Edenderry95%
Co. Offaly towns78%
Typical Irish town92%
About 400 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
Protected areas
1.7% of the land around Edenderry is protected for nature
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 Edenderry0%
Within 5 km1.7%
Co. Offaly towns4.5%
Typical Irish town1.8%
3 protected sites lie within 5 km of Edenderry. Proposed Natural Heritage Areas cover 1.6% 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
Wicklow Mountains National Park is 41 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
41 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
8 km of footpaths cross Edenderry
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
7.9 km
over 19.2 km² of town and the 1 km around it
Woodland
7%
about 1.3 km² of mapped woods
Registered trails
1
walking trails within 5 km
Km per km², town and 1 km around · mapped on OpenStreetMap
EdenderryCo. Offaly townsTypical Irish town
Footpaths0.4
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
EdenderryCo. Offaly townsTypical Irish town
Woodland7%
0%50%100%
Edenderry has less footpath per km² than 89% of Irish towns and more woodland than 84% 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 Edenderry
8 km of footpaths are mapped in Edenderry and the kilometre around it, 0.4 km for every square kilometre (the typical Irish town has 2.1).
Long-distance way
Grand Canal Way117.1 km
The Grand Canal Way (117 km end to end) passes through Edenderry.
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 Edenderry: 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 | 17.0 | 16.5 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 83 | 67 | 62 | 63 | 59 | 71 | 76 | 81 | 70 | 92 | 92 | 88 |
May 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 October, the wettest month. The climate in Edenderry →
Things to do
2 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
Playgrounds 2
Plus 2 playgrounds 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 Edenderry
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 20 km, coloured by the share of the land within 5 km protected for nature.
DerrinturnKinnegadRathanganAllenwoodLongwoodDaingeanEdenderry
Under 1%1–10%10–25%25–50%50%+
None of the neighbours has many more of its people near a park than Edenderry.
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 Edenderry
What is the biggest park in Edenderry?
Blundel Park, 4.5 ha (11 acres). Coursing Park (4.2 ha) is second. 4 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is there protected countryside near Edenderry?
Yes: 1.7% of the land within 5 km is protected, across 3 sites. The nearest is Black Castle Bog NHA, 2.7 km from the edge of town.
What are the best walks near Edenderry?
One waymarked trail starts within 5 km: the Grand Canal Way.
How many people in Edenderry live near a park?
95% 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 Edenderry?
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 Edenderry near a National Park?
The nearest of Ireland’s six National Parks is Wicklow Mountains National Park, 41 km south-east of the town’s edge; it covers about 223 km².
Sources
Where Edenderry’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).