Humewood

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Humewood, from 3,667 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres) to 459,958 m² (46 ha, 113.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Humewood in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 25 Sept 2026N/a

  dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 26199

• 15 Dec 2017Conditional

  secondary wastewater treatment system and tertiary sand polishing filter located at the north gate lodge (protected structure)

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 171492

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Humewood.

Recorded monuments

• WI027-064 Rock art (present location)
  Description

  Stone with at least seven cup and ring marks described by Price (1934, 31). Discovered c. 1870 during the construction of an artificial lake and placed in front of Humewood Castle. See WI027-080---- for the original location of this monument. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2010 G. Conroy.

Architectural heritage

• Humewood Castle, gate lodge, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay one and a half-storey gate lodge, built c.1870. The house is constructed in ashlar granite. To the south side of the east elevation there is projecting gabled porch; the original door has been removed. The front door is now set within a later flat-roofed porch with a flat-headed opening. Window openings have stone surrounds and are flat-headed with lattice paned timber casement frames. The pitched roof is finished with natural slate and has cast-iron rainwater goods. The chimneystack has a chamfered coping and clay pots. The house is slightly set back behind a large gate screen with square pillars with tall pyramidal caps and wrought-iron gates.

• Humewood Castle, country house, 1865–1870 · National interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay part two, part three and part four-storey Gothic style country house built 1867-70 to designs by William White (1825-1900) and extended 1873-7 to designs by James Brooks (1825-1901). The building is very large and has an irregular plan form, with the main (largely three to four-storey) section of the house to the south and a long two-storey wing to the north, which merges with a complex of service buildings. Each elevation is composed of a multitude of bays, towers, gables, oriels, half dormers, buttresses and chimneybreasts rising into tall stacks, with crenellated parapets and string courses. The walls are largely constructed in rubble with dressed granite quoins and window surrounds. The roof is pitched and slated. Some of the towers have hipped roofs topped with metal finials. The entrance is to the south end of the east elevation and consists of a large pointed arch panelled timber double door with moulded reveal and drip stone. Directly above the door is a large elaborately carved panel with coats of arms. The entrance is set within a large port-cochere with large pointed arch-headed openings. The window openings are largely flat-headed and filled with timber casement or timber sash frames. A small number of windows have cusped heads, with some of these filled with stained glass. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The house is set within an extensive demesne.

• Humewood Castle, gate lodge, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay gate lodge to Humewood Castle, built c.1870. The walls are constructed in squared granite whilst the slated gable-ended pitched roof has an overhang with exposed rafter ends and decorative bargeboards, and granite chimneystacks with bevelled bases and corbelling. The entrance consists of a timber door and segmental arch-headed fanlight with lattice panes. The entrance is flanked by hipped roof canted bays which have flat-headed windows with metal frames with swivel openers and lattice panes. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The lodge is sited at north-western gateway to the Humewood Castle demesne, next to a gate screen with cast-iron gates and railings with square granite piers with steep pyramidal caps (now damaged).

• Humewood Castle, worker's house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay one and a half-storey head gardener's house, built c.1870, now disused. The building is roughly L-shaped in plan with a large full-height gabled bay, porch projection and canted bays to front. The walls are constructed in squared granite with dressed granite quoins and window surrounds, whilst the overhanging slated gable-ended roof has decorative bargeboards, exposed rafter ends and chimneystacks. The roof of the porch is hidden behind a parapet. The entrance is to the south face of the porch and consists of a timber tongue and groove door. To the south of the porch is a hip-roofed canted bay with flat-headed windows with one over one sash frames. To the north of the porch there is a similar bay. The rest of the windows are also flat-headed and have a mixture of timber sash and timber casement frames. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The house it set into the high wall surrounding the garden within the Humewood Castle demesne.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Humewood, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Humewood.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Humewood with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Humewood · Coill Hume

Area

1,086,639 m² (108.66 ha, 268.51 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltegan, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Humewood, the unit of the census

Census 2022

351 people lived in 134 households in the Humewood electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barraderry East, Barraderry North, Brockna, Kiltegan, Knockavurrig, Newtown

Placenames

Humewood on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.