MF#1
Photo: Deadstar · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan
Ballyconnell is the birthplace of 2 famous people
The best known is the Irish mayor Mary Freehill, with articles in 3 languages. The other is John Meehan, the Australian politician. For more famous names, Cavan is 20 km away: its list has 25, led by Brendan Smith. The oldest name on the list belongs to John Meehan, born in 1864, the newest to Mary Freehill, born in 1946.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Mary Freehill
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1864
John Meehan
Youngest
1946
Mary Freehill
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Ballyconnell
JM#2
Politics & Law
John Meehan
1864–1930Australian politician (1864-1930)
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Cavan leads the towns around it, with 25 names.
Questions about famous people from Ballyconnell
Who is the most famous person from Ballyconnell?
Mary Freehill (Irish mayor) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 3 languages. Next come John Meehan.
How many famous people were born in Ballyconnell?
2 people born in Ballyconnell have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Ballyconnell known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 2 of the 2. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ballyconnell?
John Meehan, born in 1864. The youngest on the list was born in 1946.
Who counts as from Ballyconnell?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ballyconnell’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 (1)
- Brendan Smith: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 2.0, 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).