Photo: Kweedado2 · CC BY-SA 3.0The St Declan's Way runs through Cashel
3 waymarked trails start within 5 km of Cashel, among them the St Declan's Way and Tipperary Heritage Way. Footpaths add up to 7 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 0.4 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Cashel add up to 1.8 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical Irish town has 4.1.
What kind of outdoors town is Cashel?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Cashel’s strongest suit is the St Declan's Way. Where it falls short is footpaths.
How Cashel 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.
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.
Cashel has the 8th fewest footpaths per km² of 40 towns its size
The 40 Irish towns nearest in population (4,278 to 5,478 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Chapelizod (7.8 km per km²) to Carrick-On-Shannon (0.2 km per km²).
Cashel falls furthest behind on path per km², where 31 of the 39 others do better.
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | The sea | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chapelizod Dublin | 7.8 | 11% | 0% | – |
| 2 | St Stephen's Green Dublin | 7.4 | 0.9% | 0.3% | 11% |
| 3 | Gurranebraher Cork | 7.4 | 1.6% | 0.5% | – |
| 4 | St Luke's Cork | 6 | 3.5% | 2.8% | – |
| 5 | Ballyboden Dublin | 5.9 | 4.3% | 0.5% | – |
| 6 | Edmondstown Dublin | 5.1 | 7.5% | 4.5% | – |
| 7 | Ballinlough Cork | 4.9 | 3.2% | 3.8% | – |
| 8 | Tramore Cork | 4.7 | 4.6% | 3.7% | – |
| 9 | Knockrea Cork | 4.7 | 3.1% | 3.7% | – |
| 10 | Saggart Dublin | 4.6 | 2% | 0% | – |
| 11 | Woodquay and Nuns Island Galway | 4.5 | 0.7% | 14% | 32% |
| 12 | Inchicore Dublin | 4.5 | 3.9% | 0% | – |
| 13 | Dangan Galway | 4.3 | 3.9% | 18% | 21% |
| 14 | Bohernabreena Dublin | 4.3 | 2.9% | 5% | – |
| 15 | Tivoli Cork | 4 | 7% | 4.8% | – |
| 16 | Fair Hill Cork | 4 | 4.4% | 0.4% | – |
| 17 | Garryowen Limerick | 3.4 | 0.5% | 9.6% | – |
| 18 | Salthill Galway | 3.3 | 1% | 15% | 46% |
| 19 | Galvone Limerick | 2.9 | 0.7% | 8.3% | – |
| 20 | Poleberry Waterford | 2.4 | 0.6% | 7.2% | – |
| 21 | Castlegar Galway | 1.8 | 1.4% | 16% | 16% |
| 22 | Glanmire Cork | 1.7 | 13% | 6.6% | – |
| 23 | Kilcoole Wicklow | 1.5 | 4.3% | 5.8% | 37% |
| 24 | Glounthaune Cork | 1.2 | 8% | 6.1% | – |
| 25 | Athenry Galway | 1.2 | 1.2% | 0% | – |
| 26 | Newcastle Dublin | 1.1 | 0.9% | 0% | – |
| 27 | Ballybeg Waterford | 1 | 1.2% | 4.1% | – |
| 28 | Ardee Louth | 0.9 | 0.7% | 0.8% | – |
| 29 | Birr Offaly | 0.8 | 14% | 5.2% | – |
| 30 | Monasterevin Kildare | 0.6 | 16% | 2% | – |
| 31 | Courtown Wexford | 0.6 | 8.6% | 0% | 37% |
| 32 | Duleek Meath | 0.4 | 0.1% | 1.3% | – |
| 33 | Cashel Tipperary | 0.4 | 1.8% | 1.4% | – |
| 34 | Ballybofey-Stranorlar Donegal | 0.4 | 7.7% | 2.3% | – |
| 35 | Listowel Kerry | 0.4 | 2.3% | 4.8% | – |
| 36 | Tipperary Tipperary | 0.3 | 0.7% | 0.8% | – |
| 37 | Mountmellick Laois | 0.3 | 0.5% | 3.4% | – |
| 38 | Tullow Carlow | 0.3 | 0.4% | 1.7% | – |
| 39 | Clonakilty Cork | 0.3 | 1.8% | 3.3% | 7.1% |
| 40 | Carrick-On-Shannon Leitrim | 0.2 | 2% | 0% | – |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Cashel’s urban area.
9 in 10 Cashel 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).
About 600 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
1.4% of the land around Cashel 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.
One protected site lies within 5 km of Cashel. 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.
Burren National Park is 88 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.
Burren National Park
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).
7 km of footpaths cross Cashel
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+.
Km per km², town and 1 km around · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Cashel has less footpath per km² than 89% of Irish towns and less 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.
3 waymarked trails start near Cashel
7 km of footpaths are mapped in Cashel and the kilometre around it, 0.4 km for every square kilometre (the typical Irish town has 2.1).
The St Declan's Way (117 km end to end) passes through Cashel. For a shorter walk, the High Kings Loop is 9.3 km, graded easy.
One more waymarked walk on OpenStreetMap
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.
The best walking months in Cashel: 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 | 13.9 | 15.7 | 16.8 | 16.4 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.6 | 7.7 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 100 | 77 | 74 | 67 | 66 | 74 | 76 | 86 | 81 | 108 | 106 | 104 |
May is the driest month (66 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7.7 hours of daylight in December, and 108 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. The climate in Cashel →
1 viewpoint and 1 hill or peak
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.
The highest named top on the map is Ballyknock Hill, at 198 m, 0.9 km from town.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 1
Plus 1 viewpoint without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 1
Playgrounds 4
Plus 4 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Unnamed places are counted, not listed.
Next to Cashel
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 20 km, coloured by the share of the land within 5 km protected for nature.
In Fethard, 100% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park, more than here. Fethard has at least twice Cashel’s green space per resident.
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 Cashel
Is there protected countryside near Cashel?
Yes: 1.4% of the land within 5 km is protected, in one site. The nearest is Lower River Suir SAC, 2.4 km from the edge of town.
What are the best walks near Cashel?
3 waymarked trails start within 5 km, including the St Declan's Way, Tipperary Heritage Way and High Kings Loop.
How many people in Cashel live near a park?
87% 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 Cashel?
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 Cashel near a National Park?
The nearest of Ireland’s six National Parks is Burren National Park, 88 km north-west of the town’s edge; it covers about 21 km².
What is there to do outdoors around Cashel?
Within 2 km, OpenStreetMap maps 1 viewpoint and 1 hill or peak; the named ones are listed under Things to do, with directions.
Where Cashel’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).