Photo: Robert Ashby · CC BY-SA 2.0Ballycotton has yet to put a famous person on the list
Edward Bransfield tops the 38 names on record in Midleton, 15 km away. Across Co. Cork, the lists cover 97 towns. The longest list in Co. Cork is Cork’s, with 712 names. After Cork, the next longest list in Co. Cork is Mahon’s, with 58.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Ballycotton’s urban area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Ballycotton yet.
Famous people born near Ballycotton
Midleton leads the towns around it, with 38 names.
Youghal · 17 kmAnna Haslam & 32 moreJHCloyne · 9 kmJohn Joseph Hennessy & 10 moreDBCarrigtwohill · 19 kmDáibhí de Barra & 10 moreHSCastlemartyr · 10 kmHenry Boyle, 1st Earl of Shannon & 5 moreWCWhitegate · 15 kmWilliam Cosgrove & 3 moreDDCrosshaven · 20 kmDan Desmond & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Ballycotton
Who counts as from Ballycotton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ballycotton’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)
- Anna Haslam: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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