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Horace de Vere Cole
1881–1936Irish prankster (1881–1936)
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Famous people · Ballincollig, Cork
Athletes stand out among the 12 famous people born in Ballincollig
Articles in 11 languages make the Irish prankster Horace de Vere Cole the best known. Since 1970, 5 were born, the most of any period. Over 138 years of births, the list goes from Goodwin Young (1850) to Noel Galvin (1988). Fewer than a quarter of the 97 towns in Co. Cork with famous people list more.
Born here
12
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Horace de Vere Cole
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1850
Goodwin Young
Youngest
1988
Noel Galvin
Most common field
Sports
6 people
What stands out about Ballincollig’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Ballincollig is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.6 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When Ballincollig’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1970s come out on top, with 3 births.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Ballincollig
Horace de Vere Cole has articles in 11 languages, Dan McCarthy in 1 and Dan Murphy in 1.
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Everyone else born in Ballincollig
Of the other 9, 6 are athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
5 towns around it have someone on record.
Questions about famous people from Ballincollig
Who is the most famous person from Ballincollig?
Horace de Vere Cole (Irish prankster (1881–1936)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 11 languages. Next come Dan McCarthy and Dan Murphy.
How many famous people were born in Ballincollig?
12 people born in Ballincollig have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 13 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Ballincollig known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 6 of the 12. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ballincollig?
Goodwin Young, born in 1850. The youngest on the list was born in 1988.
Who counts as from Ballincollig?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ballincollig’s neighbourhood (its Census 2022 Small Areas), 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. In Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford a birth recorded only as the city stays on the city’s page; a neighbourhood lists only people recorded as born in it.
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 (3)
- Horace de Vere Cole: Believed to be James Lafayette. For further information, see the talk page., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Patrick Cronin: Seaninryan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Griffin: Robk23oxf, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).