Knockavurrig

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockavurrig, from 48,648 m² (4.86 ha, 12.02 acres) to 221,533 m² (22.15 ha, 54.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Knockavurrig 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.

• 12 Nov 2025Conditional

  erection of 378 PV Modules on ground driven steel mounting systems laid out in an array layout adjacent to the existing farmyard including all ducting associated with same to connect to existing substation within the estate, all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560914

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 Knockavurrig.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockavurrig.

Architectural heritage

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

  Detached three-bay double-pile gate lodge to Humewood Castle, built c.1870. The walls are constructed in squared granite with dressed granite to the openings, whilst the overhanging gable-ended pitched roof is covered in artificial slate and has decorative bargeboards and brick chimneystacks with bevelled bases and corbelling. The entrance consists of a replacement timber door and segmental arch-headed fanlight with "spoke" tracery. The entrance is flanked by hipped roof canted bays which have flat-headed windows with replacement top-hung timber frames. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods. The gate lodge is set at north-eastern 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 with finials.

• Humewood Castle, stables, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple bay part two part single-storey stable yard complex at Humewood Castle, dated 1867. The complex is based around a large square yard with the main two-storey wing to the north, a lower two-storey wing to the south and single-storey east and west wings. The east, west and south wings are all linked whilst the north wing is wholly detached. The north wing is partly used as living quarters and partly as stables, the east and west wings contain stables and sheds, with barns to the south wing. The north elevation of the south wing is composed of a full-length open lean-to shed. The walls are constructed in squared granite with dressed granite quoins and window and door surrounds. Each wing has a slated gable-ended pitched roof with granite chimneystacks to the north, east and west wings. There are large elliptical-headed carriage entrances to the north and south wings, all set under gables, with a small bell cote above that to the south elevation of the north wing. There are pedestrian / stable doorways to the north, east and west wings filled with timber tongue and groove doors. The window openings are flat-headed and largely filled with six over six, four over four and three over three timber sash frames. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The complex is set 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 Knockavurrig, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Knockavurrig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Knockavurrig

Area

922,677 m² (92.27 ha, 228 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

Fiddan, Graigue, Humewood, Kiltegan, Newtown

Placenames

Knockavurrig 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.