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Photo: Terence wiki · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
Mary O'Toole is the only name on the Hacketstown list
Mary O'Toole came into the world in 1874. Their birth falls in the Revival and independence years. Readers can find them written up in one language. Of its neighbours, Baltinglass, 13 km away, lists the most: 9, Jennie Wyse Power first.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Mary O'Toole
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1874
Mary O'Toole
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Hacketstown
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Baltinglass’, at 9 names.
Questions about famous people from Hacketstown
Who is the most famous person from Hacketstown?
Mary O'Toole is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 1 languages.
How many famous people were born in Hacketstown?
1 people born in Hacketstown have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Hacketstown known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who counts as from Hacketstown?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Hacketstown’s urban area (the CSO’s 2022 urban area), a hospital or district within it included, whose English Wikipedia article agrees. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes aren’t listed.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata birthplace may be a county or just “Ireland”, a townland or village we don’t list, another town, or missing, or their article may give no birthplace. We only list people both sources agree on; editing Wikidata or Wikipedia changes this page at the next refresh.
From Wikidata (CC0: birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations, how many Wikipedia and sister-site articles cover each person) and English Wikipedia (each person’s article confirms the birthplace; linked, not quoted). A birthplace is placed in a town by its own Wikidata item, its Logainm place name, or a point inside its CSO 2022 outline; a birth recorded only as one of the five cities stays on the city’s page. Ranked by the number of articles. Fields are read from Wikidata’s description and occupations. “The usual town”: everyone listed across Irish towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (2)
- Jennie Wyse Power: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick Keppel: Frederick Keppel, photographer unknown., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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