Outdoors in Enniskillen · parks, paths & countryside
80% of Enniskillen’s residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park
Footpaths add up to 46 km in the town and the kilometre around it, 1.2 for every square kilometre. Parks and playing fields in Enniskillen add up to 2.6 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical town in England and Wales has 2.1. Enniskillen has no Outdoors Grade: Northern Ireland’s towns aren’t graded on the outdoors yet.
Each square is 1 in 100 residents: green lives within 400 m of a public park, garden or playing field (NISRA Census 2021 data zones against OpenStreetMap’s parks).
Within 400 m (80%)Further (20%)
Enniskillen80%
Fermanagh and Omagh towns80%
Towns in England and Wales83%
About 2,800 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 17 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 829 residents.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
2 waymarked walks pass through or near Enniskillen
46 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Enniskillen and the kilometre around it, 1.2 km for every square kilometre (the typical town in England and Wales has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
Local
Castle Coole Beech Trail, Castle Coole3.1 km
Castle Coole Lake Walk, Castle Coole2.4 km
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
History along the way
2 historic parks, and what stands in them
HED’s register of parks and gardens, and the listed buildings and scheduled monuments that stand inside Enniskillen’s named parks.
Registered park · Grade A
Forthill Park
2.0 ha. Part of Fort Hill Gardens, a registered historic park (Grade A). 2 listed structures and monuments stand inside it or at its edge, including The General Cole Column (Grade A).
IThe General Cole ColumnIIBand Stand, Fort Hill
Registered · Grade Castle Coole44 ha
Heritage walks
Castle Coole Beech Trail, Castle Coole 3.1 km Castle Coole Lake Walk, Castle Coole 2.4 km
A listed building or monument counts when it sits inside the park’s OpenStreetMap outline (to about 15 m), so a few at the boundary are included. HED, National Heritage List for England.
When to get out
The best walking months in Enniskillen: May to September
The town’s 1991–2020 averages (Met Office HadUK-Grid) and the daylight at its latitude. Outlined months have 12½+ hours of daylight, highs of 15 °C or more and little rain for the town.
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Daylight (h)
7.9
9.6
11.7
14.0
16.0
17.2
16.7
14.9
12.6
10.4
8.4
7.3
High (°C)
8
8
10
13
16
18
19
19
17
14
10
8
Rain (mm)
116
95
89
73
77
78
91
94
86
118
117
124
April is the driest month (73 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 19 °C). Winter days are short, about 7 hours of daylight in December, and 124 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 39 nights a year. The climate in Enniskillen →
Things to do
17 playgrounds
Mapped within 2 km of the town in OpenStreetMap. Named places are listed with directions; unnamed ones are only counted.
None of the neighbours has a protected landscape within 5 km either.
Questions about the outdoors in Enniskillen
What is the biggest park in Enniskillen?
Forthill Park, 2.0 ha (5 acres), with 0.9 km of path. Brook Park (2.3 ha) is second. 22 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Enniskillen near an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty?
No Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is within 30 km (about 19 miles) of Enniskillen.
What are the best walks near Enniskillen?
2 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Castle Coole Beech Trail, Castle Coole and Castle Coole Lake Walk, Castle Coole.
How many people in Enniskillen live near a park?
80% of residents live within 400 m, about a 5-minute walk, of a public park, garden or playing field (NISRA Census 2021 data zones against OpenStreetMap’s parks). The typical town in England and Wales is 83%.
When is the best time of year for walking in Enniskillen?
May to September: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Which parks in Enniskillen are historic?
Castle Coole (Grade ) and Fort Hill Gardens (Grade A) are on HED’s register of parks and gardens.
How is the Outdoors Grade worked out?
From five measures, each placed among UK towns of 1,000 or more: public green space per resident, the share living near a park, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty within 5 km, footpaths per square kilometre, and the sea within 5 km. It is a character grade and isn’t part of Enniskillen’s overall grade.
Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty: DAERA (Northern Ireland Environment Agency) boundaries, areas and designation dates, via Open Data NI, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Historic parks, listed buildings and monuments: Department for Communities, Historic Environment Division, via Open Data NI, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Rain and temperature: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for the town; daylight calculated from its latitude.
Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0