First pick
Dundrum Woods (Marl Bog)
Wood or forest
65 ha4.3 km of path
1 hto walk all 4.3 km of path
1.0 km south-westfrom the centre
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Sarah777 at en.wikipedia · Public domain100%near a park
Outdoors in Dundrum · parks, paths & countryside
Woods cover more of Dundrum than of 10 in 10 Irish towns
Woods cover 20% of Dundrum and the kilometre around it. 100% of residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park or playing field. Parks and playing fields in Dundrum add up to 9.5 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical Irish town has 4.1.
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical Irish town: 92%
Green space
9.5 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical Irish town: 4.1 ha
Footpaths
7 km
0.9 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical Irish town: 2.1 km per km²
Protected for nature
3.6%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Lower River Suir SAC
Woodland
20%
of the town and 1 km around it
Typical Irish town: 2.7%
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Dundrum?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Wooded country20% mapped woodland in and around town, more than 99% of Irish towns.A park on every doorstep100% of residents live within 400 m of a park or playing field.Room to roam9.5 ha of parks and playing fields per 1,000 residents, more than 79% of Irish towns.
Dundrum’s strongest suit is its woods, followed by parks close to every home.
Against other towns
How Dundrum 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 space9.5 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
79out of 100
Footpaths0.9 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
27out of 100
Protected for nature3.6%of the land within 5 km
63out of 100
Woodland20%of the town and 1 km around it, as mapped
100out 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
Dundrum has the 18th most footpaths per km² of 40 towns its size
The 40 Irish towns nearest in population (221 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
Dundrum0.9
Towns its size0.7
Co. Tipperary towns0.5
Typical Irish town2.1
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Dundrum9.5
Towns its size4.1
Co. Tipperary towns3.2
Typical Irish town4.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Dundrum100%
Towns its size87%
Co. Tipperary towns83%
Typical Irish town92%
Against towns its size, Dundrum stands out most for park space per resident: only 9 of the other 39 have more.
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 | Dundrum Tipperary | 0.9 | 20% | 3.6% | – |
| 19 | Ballina Tipperary | 0.9 | 1.8% | 4.7% | – |
| 20 | Moate Westmeath | 0.7 | 2.4% | 2.4% | – |
| 21 | Callan Kilkenny | 0.7 | 0.1% | 2.3% | – |
| 22 | Kingscourt Cavan | 0.7 | 12% | 0% | – |
| 23 | Kenmare Kerry | 0.6 | 7.2% | 6.5% | 6.4% |
| 24 | Athboy Meath | 0.6 | 1.1% | 1.5% | – |
| 25 | Bundoran Donegal | 0.5 | 2% | 5.1% | 35% |
| 26 | Muinebeag (Bagenalstown) Carlow | 0.5 | 3.9% | 2.9% | – |
| 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 Dundrum’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 Dundrum
The biggest is Dundrum Woods (Marl Bog), 65 ha (161 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 Dundrum 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%)
Dundrum100%
Co. Tipperary towns83%
Typical Irish town92%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
Protected areas
3.6% of the land around Dundrum 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 Dundrum0%
Within 5 km3.6%
Co. Tipperary towns3.4%
Typical Irish town1.8%
One protected site lies within 5 km of Dundrum. Ireland’s National Parks have a block of their own on this page; much of their land also lies inside these sites.
Lower River Suir SACSpecial Area of Conservation · 72 km² · 0.0 km from the edge
NPWS pageProtected 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
Burren National Park is 77 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
Burren National Park
77 km north-west21 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
7 km of footpaths cross Dundrum
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
7.1 km
over 7.6 km² of town and the 1 km around it
Woodland
20%
about 1.5 km² of mapped woods
Registered trails
2
walking trails within 5 km
Km per km², town and 1 km around · mapped on OpenStreetMap
DundrumCo. Tipperary townsTypical Irish town
Footpaths0.9
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
DundrumCo. Tipperary townsTypical Irish town
Woodland20%
0%50%100%
Dundrum has less footpath per km² than 73% of Irish towns and more woodland than 100% of Irish towns.
Footpaths and woods: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Woods are mapped cover, private and Coillte forests included.
Footpaths & trails
2 waymarked trails start near Dundrum
7 km of footpaths are mapped in Dundrum and the kilometre around it, 0.9 km for every square kilometre (the typical Irish town has 2.1).
Walking trail
Marl Bog - Forest Walk3.0 km
Marl Bog - Lakeside Walk1.8 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 Dundrum: 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 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 110 | 88 | 81 | 72 | 69 | 77 | 77 | 91 | 84 | 112 | 115 | 120 |
May is the driest month (69 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7.7 hours of daylight in December, and 120 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. The climate in Dundrum →
Gardens & nature
A garden or nature site to visit near Dundrum
Gardens, national parks, nature sites and islands within 15 km of the town’s edge, each with its own page.
Celtic Plantarum DundrumGarden · In Dundrum
Its pagePlaces to visit: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0), OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.
Next door
Next to Dundrum
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 20 km, coloured by the share of the land within 5 km protected for nature.
TipperaryCashelDundrum
Under 1%1–10%10–25%25–50%50%+
None of the neighbours has many more of its people near a park than Dundrum.
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 Dundrum
Is there protected countryside near Dundrum?
Yes: 3.6% of the land within 5 km is protected, in one site. The nearest is Lower River Suir SAC, 0.0 km from the edge of town.
What are the best walks near Dundrum?
2 waymarked trails start within 5 km, including the Marl Bog - Forest Walk and Marl Bog - Lakeside Walk.
How many people in Dundrum 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 Dundrum?
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 Dundrum near a National Park?
The nearest of Ireland’s six National Parks is Burren National Park, 77 km north-west of the town’s edge; it covers about 21 km².
Sources
Where Dundrum’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).