How walkable is Clonskeagh?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Clonskeagh has a walkability score of 76 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. It is the 4th most walkable of 5 neighbourhoods ranked in Dublin, which scores 82 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
283 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Clonskeagh. The nearest grocery is Spar, about a minute away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, shopping, banks and parks.
- Costcutter Dundrum 11 min
- EcoLogic The Organic Food Store14 min
- Golden Olive Restaurant3 min
- Street10 min
- Molloy's Centra UCD3 min
- Notionz4 min
- Thru the Green13 min
- Café Brava13 min
- AIB20 min
- Bank of Ireland26 min
- Unnamed park6 min
- Glasson Court Park11 min
- St. Kilian’s Back Gate11 min
- Our Lady's Grove Primary School11 min
- The Jesuit Library12 min
- CONUL - Consortium of National & University Libraries13 min
- O'Reilly Hall, UCD18 min
- Independent Theatre Workshop23 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Clonskeagh at 53.3056, -6.2369. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 69 street intersections per km², and blocks average 80 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 1%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Clonskeagh
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1 km around the centre of Clonskeagh. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Dublin
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Temple Bar | 4.8 km | 100 |
| Clontarf | 6.7 km | 57 |
| Drumcondra | 7.1 km | 90 |
| Ballymun | 10.1 km | 85 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Dublin page.
Questions about walking in Clonskeagh
Is Clonskeagh walkable?
Yes. Clonskeagh in Dublin has a walkability score of 76 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot.
Is Clonskeagh more walkable than the rest of Dublin?
Clonskeagh is less walkable than Dublin as a whole: it scores 76, against 82 for the 5 km around Dublin's centre. It ranks 4th of the 5 Dublin neighbourhoods on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Dublin?
Of the 5 Dublin neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Temple Bar (100), Drumcondra (90) and Ballymun (85).
How is the walkability score of Clonskeagh calculated?
The score counts groceries, restaurants, shops, cafés, banks, parks, schools, libraries and cultural venues within a 30 minute walk, gives nearer places more weight, and deducts up to 20% where streets are sparse or blocks are long. For Clonskeagh it is the average of 56 points spread evenly across the 1 km around its mapped centre, leaving out water and land without streets, using open map data from Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap.
Scores follow a published walkability method, explained in the methodology. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.