# Knockavurrig, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kiltegan, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 922,677 m² (92.27 ha, 228 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 127,474 m² (12.75 ha, 31.5 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kiltegan, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/kiltegan.md - Barony: Talbotstown Upper - Electoral division: Humewood, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/0 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250941 - Centre: latitude 52.914729, longitude -6.600627 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5113155: 221,533 m² (22.15 ha, 54.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5113155.md - Parcel 5113183: 164,957 m² (16.5 ha, 40.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5113183.md - Parcel 5112934: 133,954 m² (13.4 ha, 33.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5112934.md - Parcel 5112892: 120,994 m² (12.1 ha, 29.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5112892.md - Parcel 1262239: 94,463 m² (9.45 ha, 23.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262239.md - Parcel 1297690: 48,648 m² (4.86 ha, 12.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1297690.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 12 Nov 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560914: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560914/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockavurrig. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockavurrig. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Humewood Castle, gate lodge, 1860–1880, Regional interest, registry number 16402703, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI®no=16402703. 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, registry number 16402706, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI®no=16402706. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockavurrig.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockavurrig.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockavurrig.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockavurrig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Fiddan: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/fiddan.md - Graigue: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/graigue.md - Humewood: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/humewood.md - Kiltegan: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/kiltegan.md - Newtown: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/newtown-251106.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockavurrig - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/knockavurrig