#1Famous people · Bailieborough, Co. Cavan
Bailieborough counts 8 famous people, first among them Cillian Sheridan
Articles in 20 languages make the Irish footballer Cillian Sheridan the best known. Close behind are Francis Sheehy-Skeffington and Leanne Kiernan. More are athletes than anything else, 3 in all. The list is still growing: 2 were born since 1970.
Born here
8
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Cillian Sheridan
20 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1850
Edward Frederick Clarke
Youngest
1999
Leanne Kiernan
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Bailieborough
First, Cillian Sheridan (20 languages), then Francis Sheehy-Skeffington (12) and Leanne Kiernan (10).
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#2Writing & Arts
Francis Sheehy-Skeffington
1878–1916Irish suffragist, pacifist and writer
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Sports
Leanne Kiernan
born 1999Irish association football player
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Bailieborough’s famous people were born
The 1850s alone account for 2 of the births charted here.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsScience & MedicineMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Bailieborough is known for
The field with the most names is Sports: 3.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Bailieborough
Another 5, 2 of them leaders.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, 5 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Bailieborough
Who is the most famous person from Bailieborough?
Cillian Sheridan (Irish footballer) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 20 languages. Next come Francis Sheehy-Skeffington and Leanne Kiernan.
How many famous people were born in Bailieborough?
8 people born in Bailieborough have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Bailieborough known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 3 of the 8. That is 38% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bailieborough?
Edward Frederick Clarke, born in 1850. The youngest on the list was born in 1999.
Who counts as from Bailieborough?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bailieborough’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 (5)
- Cillian Sheridan: Biso, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Francis Sheehy-Skeffington: photographer not identified, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Leanne Kiernan: James Boyes from UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Patrick "Paddy" Smith: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ardal O'Hanlon: Conor, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).