First pick
Charleville Castle Demesne
Park or garden
319 ha4.1 km of path
55 minto walk all 4.1 km of path
2.7 km south-westfrom the centre
Charleville Castle Entrance
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.078%near a park
Outdoors in Tullamore · parks, paths & countryside
Tullamore has more park space per resident than 9 in 10 Irish towns
Parks and playing fields in Tullamore add up to 22.5 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical Irish town has 4.1. One waymarked trail starts within 5 km of Tullamore: the Grand Canal Way. 25 km of footpaths run through the town and the kilometre around it, 0.7 for every square kilometre.
Near a park
78%
of residents within 400 m
Typical Irish town: 92%
Green space
22.5 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical Irish town: 4.1 ha
Footpaths
25 km
0.7 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical Irish town: 2.1 km per km²
Protected for nature
3.8%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Charleville Wood SAC
Woodland
10%
of the town and 1 km around it
Typical Irish town: 2.7%
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Tullamore?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Room to roam22.5 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 95% of Irish towns.Wooded country10% mapped woodland in and around town, more than 94% of Irish towns.Protected land nearbyCharleville Wood SAC reaches the edge of Tullamore.On a long-distance trailThe Grand Canal Way passes through.
Tullamore’s strongest suit is plenty of park space, followed by its woods.
Against other towns
How Tullamore 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 walk78%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
31out of 100
Public green space22.5 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
95out of 100
Footpaths0.7 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
20out of 100
Protected for nature3.8%of the land within 5 km
65out of 100
Woodland10%of the town and 1 km around it, as mapped
95out 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
Tullamore has the 3rd fewest footpaths per km² of 40 towns its size
The 40 Irish towns nearest in population (13,245 to 18,369 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Tallaght (8.8 km per km²) to Mallow (0.6 km per km²).
Footpath, km per km²
Tullamore0.7
Towns its size3.7
Co. Offaly towns0.6
Typical Irish town2.1
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Tullamore22.5
Towns its size4.6
Co. Offaly towns4.3
Typical Irish town4.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Tullamore78%
Towns its size96%
Co. Offaly towns78%
Typical Irish town92%
Against towns its size, Tullamore stands out most for park space per resident: only 2 of the other 39 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 37 of the others do better.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | The sea | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tallaght Dublin | 8.8 | 3.8% | 0.6% | – |
| 2 | Cabra East Dublin | 8 | 2.2% | 0% | – |
| 3 | Deansrath Dublin | 7.9 | 2.2% | 0% | – |
| 4 | Ballyowen Dublin | 7.5 | 6% | 0% | – |
| 5 | Stillorgan Dublin | 6.5 | 3% | 0.1% | 17% |
| 6 | Ashtown Dublin | 6.3 | 6.9% | 0% | – |
| 7 | Ballinteer Dublin | 6.2 | 7.1% | 2.8% | – |
| 8 | Dundrum Dublin | 6.2 | 4.7% | 1.3% | 6.7% |
| 9 | Clonskeagh Dublin | 6 | 2.7% | 0.1% | 16% |
| 10 | Rathmines East Dublin | 5.9 | 2.3% | 0.1% | 13% |
| 11 | Knocklyon Dublin | 5.8 | 4.7% | 3.2% | – |
| 12 | Whitehall Dublin | 5.6 | 2.6% | 0.3% | – |
| 13 | Rathfarnham Dublin | 5.5 | 4.8% | 0.1% | – |
| 14 | Templeogue Dublin | 5.2 | 3.8% | 0.1% | – |
| 15 | Cabinteely Dublin | 5.1 | 7.6% | 1.1% | 29% |
| 16 | Sallynoggin Dublin | 5 | 2% | 0.3% | 47% |
| 17 | Kimmage Dublin | 4.3 | 0.1% | 0% | – |
| 18 | Ongar Dublin | 4.2 | 2.7% | 0.2% | – |
| 19 | East Wall Dublin | 4.1 | 1% | 3.5% | 27% |
| 20 | Belmayne Dublin | 3.8 | 1.9% | 5.2% | 25% |
| 21 | Maynooth Kildare | 3.7 | 3.9% | 0.5% | – |
| 22 | Mahon Cork | 3.6 | 6.1% | 5.3% | – |
| 23 | Leixlip Kildare | 3.6 | 7.7% | 0.5% | – |
| 24 | Clontarf West Dublin | 3.2 | 2.2% | 3.5% | 17% |
| 25 | Bishopstown Cork | 3.2 | 6% | 0.2% | – |
| 26 | Dún Laoghaire Dublin | 3 | 0.5% | 0.3% | 56% |
| 27 | Corbally and King's Island Limerick | 3 | 3.7% | 9.5% | – |
| 28 | Darndale Dublin | 2.7 | 1.9% | 3.7% | 11% |
| 29 | Castletroy Limerick | 2.4 | 1.8% | 6.6% | – |
| 30 | Ashbourne Meath | 1.6 | 0.3% | 0% | – |
| 31 | Midleton Cork | 1.6 | 2.6% | 4.5% | – |
| 32 | Ballybane Galway | 1.5 | 3.9% | 12% | 15% |
| 33 | Killarney Kerry | 1.3 | 14% | 34% | – |
| 34 | Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney Meath | 1.2 | 0.5% | 4.4% | 39% |
| 35 | Clonmel Tipperary | 1.1 | 14% | 3.9% | – |
| 36 | Carrigaline Cork | 0.9 | 6.5% | 0.2% | 6.7% |
| 37 | Cobh Cork | 0.8 | 3.5% | 13% | 23% |
| 38 | Tullamore Offaly | 0.7 | 10% | 3.8% | – |
| 39 | Arklow Wicklow | 0.7 | 5.7% | 0.3% | 34% |
| 40 | Mallow Cork | 0.6 | 5.1% | 3.2% | – |
The map
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Tullamore’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 Tullamore
The biggest is Charleville Castle Demesne, 319 ha (789 acres).
All 4 named parks and woods by size: 386 ha (955 acres) and 9 km of path
Parks & gardens 326 haWoods 60 ha
The two biggest, Charleville Castle Demesne and Charleville Forest, are 98% of the named green space and carry 7 km of path between them.
Charleville Forest
Wood or forest · 140 m outside town
60 ha2.9 km of path
40 minto walk all 2.9 km of path
2.4 km south-westfrom the centre
Charleville Castle Entrance
Directionsto a point inside
Lloyd Town Park
Park or garden
4.8 ha2.1 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.1 km of path
Centralin the middle of Tullamore
Directionsto a point inside
Tullamore Wetlands
Park or garden
1.8 ha0.3 km of path
0.8 km westfrom 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
8 in 10 Tullamore 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 (78%)Further (22%)
Tullamore78%
Co. Offaly towns78%
Typical Irish town92%
About 3,500 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
Protected areas
3.8% of the land around Tullamore 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 Tullamore0.6%
Within 5 km3.8%
Co. Offaly towns4.5%
Typical Irish town1.8%
3 protected sites lie within 5 km of Tullamore. Proposed Natural Heritage Areas cover 2.9% 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
Wicklow Mountains National Park is 64 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
64 km east223 km²
National Park
Burren National Park
97 km west21 km²
2 of Ireland’s six National Parks are within 100 km of Tullamore.
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
25 km of footpaths cross Tullamore
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
25 km
over 35.9 km² of town and the 1 km around it
Woodland
10%
about 3.7 km² of mapped woods
Registered trails
1
walking trails within 5 km
Km per km², town and 1 km around · mapped on OpenStreetMap
TullamoreCo. Offaly townsTypical Irish town
Footpaths0.7
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
TullamoreCo. Offaly townsTypical Irish town
Woodland10%
0%50%100%
Tullamore has less footpath per km² than 80% of Irish towns and more woodland than 95% of Irish towns.
Footpaths and woods: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Woods are mapped cover, private and Coillte forests included.
Footpaths & trails
Tullamore is on the Grand Canal Way
25 km of footpaths are mapped in Tullamore and the kilometre around it, 0.7 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 Tullamore.
One more waymarked walk on OpenStreetMap
Local
Canal Bank Walkway3.4 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 Tullamore: 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) | 85 | 68 | 63 | 59 | 60 | 70 | 76 | 78 | 69 | 91 | 90 | 90 |
April 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 91 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. The climate in Tullamore →
Things to do
1 hill or peak and 5 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
Hills and peaks 1
St O'Hara's Hill0.4 km from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 5
Plus 5 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Unnamed places are counted, not listed.
Next door
Next to Tullamore
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 20 km, coloured by the share of the land within 5 km protected for nature.
KilbegganClaraDaingeanKilcormacTullamore
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 Tullamore
What is the biggest park in Tullamore?
Charleville Castle Demesne, 319 ha (789 acres). Lloyd Town Park (4.8 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 Tullamore?
Yes: 3.8% of the land within 5 km is protected, across 3 sites. Charleville Wood SAC reaches Tullamore.
What are the best walks near Tullamore?
One waymarked trail starts within 5 km: the Grand Canal Way.
How many people in Tullamore live near a park?
78% 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 Tullamore?
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 Tullamore near a National Park?
The nearest of Ireland’s six National Parks is Wicklow Mountains National Park, 64 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 Tullamore?
Within 2 km, OpenStreetMap maps 1 hill or peak; the named ones are listed under Things to do, with directions.
Sources
Where Tullamore’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).