First pick
Ballard Wood
Wood or forest
31 ha3 km of path
40 minto walk all 3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Laragh
Loop walkKevin's Road
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水 · CC BY-SA 4.0100%near a park
Outdoors in Laragh · parks, paths & countryside
Laragh is more wooded than 10 in 10 Irish towns
Mapped woodland takes up 48% of Laragh and the kilometre around it. Wicklow Mountains National Park begins 0.1 km away. 14 waymarked trails start within 5 km of Laragh, among them the Wicklow Way and Derrybawn Woodland Trail - Glendalough.
Near a park
100%
of residents within 400 m
Typical Irish town: 92%
Green space
6.1 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical Irish town: 4.1 ha
Footpaths
15 km
1.6 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical Irish town: 2.1 km per km²
Protected for nature
27%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Wicklow Mountains SAC
Woodland
48%
of the town and 1 km around it
Typical Irish town: 2.7%
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Laragh?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
Wooded country48% 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.Hills with a view3 mapped viewpoints, about 184× as many per resident as the typical Irish town.Protected countryside27% of the land within 5 km is protected, including Wicklow Mountains SAC.
Laragh’s strongest suit is its woods, followed by parks close to every home.
Against other towns
How Laragh 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 space6.1 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
64out of 100
Footpaths1.6 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
44out of 100
Protected for nature27%of the land within 5 km
98out of 100
Woodland48%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
Laragh has the 14th most footpaths per km² of 40 towns its size
The 40 Irish towns nearest in population (445 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
Laragh1.6
Towns its size0.7
Co. Wicklow towns1.2
Typical Irish town2.1
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Laragh6.1
Towns its size4.1
Co. Wicklow towns1.5
Typical Irish town4.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Laragh100%
Towns its size87%
Co. Wicklow towns75%
Typical Irish town92%
Against towns its size, Laragh stands out most for path per km²: only 13 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 | Laragh Wicklow | 1.6 | 48% | 27% | – |
| 15 | Grange Upper Waterford | 1.4 | 1.5% | 6.6% | – |
| 16 | Blarney Cork | 1.4 | 14% | 0% | – |
| 17 | Kilbarry Waterford | 1.3 | 1.6% | 5.1% | – |
| 18 | Bantry Cork | 1 | 4.4% | 0% | 18% |
| 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 Laragh’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 Laragh
The biggest is Ballard Wood, 31 ha (77 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 Laragh 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%)
Laragh100%
Co. Wicklow towns75%
Typical Irish town92%
Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees.
Protected areas
Protected sites cover 27% of the land within 5 km of Laragh
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 Laragh9.7%
Within 5 km27%
Co. Wicklow towns3.9%
Typical Irish town1.8%
3 protected sites lie within 5 km of Laragh. 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 0.1 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
0.1 km west223 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
15 km of footpaths cross Laragh
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
15 km
over 9.5 km² of town and the 1 km around it
Woodland
48%
about 4.5 km² of mapped woods
Registered trails
14
walking trails within 5 km
Km per km², town and 1 km around · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LaraghCo. Wicklow townsTypical Irish town
Footpaths1.6
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LaraghCo. Wicklow townsTypical Irish town
Woodland48%
0%50%100%
Laragh has less footpath per km² than 56% 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
14 waymarked trails start near Laragh
15 km of footpaths are mapped in Laragh and the kilometre around it, 1.6 km for every square kilometre (the typical Irish town has 2.1).
Long-distance wayWalking trailPilgrim path
Wicklow Way128.1 km
Derrybawn Woodland Trail - Glendalough7.2 km
Avonmore Way13.5 km
St Kevin's Way - Pilgrim Path34.4 km
Green Road Walk - Glendalough2.7 km
Woodland Road - Glendalough4.7 km
Miners' Way16.9 km
Spinc & Wicklow Way - Glendalough10.4 km
Poulanass - Glendalough1.6 km
Spinc & Glenealo Valley - Glendalough8.8 km
Spinc - Short Route - Glendalough4.3 km
Miners Road Walk - Glendalough2.6 km
Poulanass & St Kevins Cell - Glendalough0.9 km
Shay Elliot Forest Car Park - Ballyboy Viewpoint Trail1.2 km
For a shorter walk, the Derrybawn Woodland Trail - Glendalough is 7.2 km, graded moderate.
6 more waymarked walks on OpenStreetMap
NationalLocalOther waymarked
European long distance path E8 - part Ireland7.5 km
Glendalough Orange Route6.0 km
Glendalough Grey Route3.3 km
Glendalough Green Route2.5 km
Saint Kevin's Way1.0 km
Glendalough Red Route0.5 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 Laragh: 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) | 8.1 | 9.8 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.8 | 16.9 | 16.4 | 14.7 | 12.6 | 10.5 | 8.6 | 7.6 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 20 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 171 | 137 | 129 | 107 | 95 | 87 | 79 | 94 | 112 | 172 | 198 | 179 |
July is the driest month (79 mm) and the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 7.6 hours of daylight in December, and 198 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. The climate in Laragh →
Things to do
3 viewpoints, 4 hills and peaks and 2 waterfalls
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.
3Viewpoints184.4× the typical Irish town, per resident4Hills and peaks2Waterfalls1Nature reserves2Picnic sites1Campsites
Per resident, viewpoints stand out most: Laragh has 184.4× as many as the typical Irish town. The highest named top on the map is Paddock Hill, at 358 m, 1.3 km from town.
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 3
Glendalough Monastic1.1 km from town
DirectionsUpper Lake view1.7 km from town
DirectionsPlus 1 viewpoint more.
Hills and peaks 4
Paddock Hill358 m · 1.3 km from town
DirectionsDerrybawn Mountain476 m · 1.8 km from town
DirectionsTrooperstown Hill430 m · 1.8 km from town
DirectionsBrockagh Mountain SE Top472 m · 1.9 km from town
DirectionsWaterfalls 2
Jackson's Falls0.1 km from town
DirectionsTrooperstown Falls0.4 km from town
DirectionsNature reserves 1
Native Woodland Trust: Paddock Hill Reserve6.6 ha · 1.9 km from town
DirectionsPicnic sites 2
Plus 2 picnic sites without a name on the map.
Campsites 1
Glendalough Glamping0.1 km from town
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Geofabrik extract, October 2026. Unnamed places are counted, not listed.
Gardens & nature
A garden or nature site to visit near Laragh
Gardens, national parks, nature sites and islands within 15 km of the town’s edge, each with its own page.
Wicklow Mountains National ParkNational park · 5.7 km from town
Its pagePlaces to visit: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0), OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.
Next door
Next to Laragh
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 20 km, coloured by the share of the land within 5 km protected for nature.
RathdrumAshfordRathnewNewtownmountkennedyAughrimWicklowLaragh
Under 1%1–10%10–25%25–50%50%+
None of the neighbours has many more of its people near a park than Laragh.
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 Laragh
Is there protected countryside near Laragh?
Yes: 27% of the land within 5 km is protected, across 3 sites. Wicklow Mountains SAC reaches Laragh.
What are the best walks near Laragh?
14 waymarked trails start within 5 km, including the Wicklow Way, Derrybawn Woodland Trail - Glendalough and Avonmore Way.
How many people in Laragh 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 Laragh?
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 Laragh near a National Park?
The nearest of Ireland’s six National Parks is Wicklow Mountains National Park, 0.1 km west of the town’s edge; it covers about 223 km².
What is there to do outdoors around Laragh?
Within 2 km, OpenStreetMap maps 3 viewpoints, 4 hills and peaks, 2 waterfalls, 1 nature reserve and 2 picnic sites; the named ones are listed under Things to do, with directions.
Sources
Where Laragh’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).