First pick
Charleville Castle Demesne
Park or garden · 100 m outside town
319 ha4.1 km of path
55 minto walk all 4.1 km of path
2.1 km north-eastfrom the centre
Charleville Castle Entrance
Directionsto a point inside
55%near a park
Outdoors in Mucklagh · parks, paths & countryside
Mucklagh has more park space per resident than 10 in 10 Irish towns
There are 349.5 ha of parks and playing fields for every 1,000 people in Mucklagh, against 4.1 in the typical Irish town. Mapped woodland takes up 14% of Mucklagh and the kilometre around it. A park or playing field is within a 5-minute walk for 55% of residents.
Near a park
55%
of residents within 400 m
Typical Irish town: 92%
Green space
349.5 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical Irish town: 4.1 ha
Footpaths
5 km
0.5 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical Irish town: 2.1 km per km²
Protected for nature
6%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Charleville Wood SAC
Woodland
14%
of the town and 1 km around it
Typical Irish town: 2.7%
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Mucklagh?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Room to roam349.5 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 99% of Irish towns.Wooded country14% mapped woodland in and around town, more than 98% of Irish towns.Protected land nearbyCharleville Wood SAC reaches the edge of Mucklagh.Few mapped footpaths0.5 km of path per km²; the typical Irish town has 2.1.
Mucklagh’s strongest suit is plenty of park space, followed by its woods. Where it falls short is footpaths.
Against other towns
How Mucklagh 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 walk55%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
6out of 100
Public green space349.5 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
100out of 100
Footpaths0.5 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
13out of 100
Protected for nature6%of the land within 5 km
80out of 100
Woodland14%of the town and 1 km around it, as mapped
98out 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
Mucklagh has the 15th fewest footpaths per km² of 40 towns its size
The 40 Irish towns nearest in population (918 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
Mucklagh0.5
Towns its size0.7
Co. Offaly towns0.6
Typical Irish town2.1
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Mucklagh349.5
Towns its size4.1
Co. Offaly towns4.3
Typical Irish town4.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Mucklagh55%
Towns its size83%
Co. Offaly towns78%
Typical Irish town92%
Against towns its size, Mucklagh stands out most for park space per resident: none of the other 39 has more. It falls furthest behind on homes near a park, where 34 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 | Mucklagh Offaly | 0.5 | 14% | 6% | – |
| 27 | Skibbereen Cork | 0.5 | 1.7% | 1.6% | – |
| 28 | Kinnegad Westmeath | 0.3 | 4.5% | 4.5% | – |
| 29 | Donegal Donegal | 0.3 | 4% | 4.1% | 12% |
| 30 | Boyle Roscommon | 0.3 | 3.2% | 0% | – |
| 31 | Bailieborough Cavan | 0.3 | 10% | 0% | – |
| 32 | Castleisland Kerry | 0.3 | 1.7% | 12% | – |
| 33 | Kanturk Cork | 0.3 | 0% | 5.1% | – |
| 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 Mucklagh’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 Mucklagh
The biggest is Charleville Castle Demesne, 319 ha (789 acres).
Big Wood
Wood or forest · 350 m outside town
3.3 ha
0.7 km northfrom the centre
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
5 in 10 Mucklagh 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 (55%)Further (45%)
Mucklagh55%
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
Protected sites cover 6% of the land within 5 km of Mucklagh
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 Mucklagh0%
Within 5 km6%
Co. Offaly towns4.5%
Typical Irish town1.8%
3 protected sites lie within 5 km of Mucklagh. Proposed Natural Heritage Areas cover 4.7% 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 70 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
70 km east223 km²
National Park
Burren National Park
94 km west21 km²
2 of Ireland’s six National Parks are within 100 km of Mucklagh.
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 Mucklagh
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
5.4 km
over 11.2 km² of town and the 1 km around it
Woodland
14%
about 1.5 km² of mapped woods
Registered trails
1
walking trails within 5 km
Km per km², town and 1 km around · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MucklaghCo. Offaly townsTypical Irish town
Footpaths0.5
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MucklaghCo. Offaly townsTypical Irish town
Woodland14%
0%50%100%
Mucklagh has less footpath per km² than 87% of Irish towns and more 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
One waymarked trail starts near Mucklagh
5 km of footpaths are mapped in Mucklagh and the kilometre around it, 0.5 km for every square kilometre (the typical Irish town has 2.1).
Long-distance way
Grand Canal Way117.1 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 Mucklagh: 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 | 16.9 | 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) | 86 | 68 | 64 | 60 | 60 | 71 | 76 | 79 | 69 | 91 | 90 | 90 |
April is the driest month (60 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7.5 hours of daylight in December, and 91 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. The climate in Mucklagh →
Things to do
3 hills and peaks
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 3
Ardnagross Hill0.2 km from town
DirectionsSugar Hill0.3 km from town
DirectionsSt O'Hara's Hill1.8 km from town
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Unnamed places are counted, not listed.
Next door
Next to Mucklagh
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 20 km, coloured by the share of the land within 5 km protected for nature.
TullamoreClaraKilbegganKilcormacDaingeanFerbaneMucklagh
Under 1%1–10%10–25%25–50%50%+
In Kilcormac, 100% 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 Mucklagh
What is the biggest park in Mucklagh?
Charleville Castle Demesne, 319 ha (789 acres), just outside the built-up area. 1 named park, garden or playing field is in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is there protected countryside near Mucklagh?
Yes: 6% of the land within 5 km is protected, across 3 sites. Charleville Wood SAC reaches Mucklagh.
What are the best walks near Mucklagh?
One waymarked trail starts within 5 km: the Grand Canal Way.
How many people in Mucklagh live near a park?
55% 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 Mucklagh?
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 Mucklagh near a National Park?
The nearest of Ireland’s six National Parks is Wicklow Mountains National Park, 70 km east of the town’s edge; it covers about 223 km². One more is within 100 km.
What is there to do outdoors around Mucklagh?
Within 2 km, OpenStreetMap maps 3 hills and peaks; the named ones are listed under Things to do, with directions.
Sources
Where Mucklagh’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).