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Donncha O'Connor
born 1981Irish Gaelic football player
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Photo: Nigel Cox · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Ballydesmond, Co. Cork
Donncha O'Connor, born in 1981, is Ballydesmond’s famous person on record
The Irish Gaelic football player Donncha O'Connor was born in 1981. Their story is told in one language so far. Within 18 km, Millstreet lists the most: 11, with Timothy Joseph Carroll first. 97 towns across Co. Cork can name a famous person born there.
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Donncha O'Connor
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1981
Donncha O'Connor
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1 person
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Born in Ballydesmond
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Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Millstreet has the most people on record, 11 of them.
Questions about famous people from Ballydesmond
Who is the most famous person from Ballydesmond?
Donncha O'Connor (Irish Gaelic football player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 1 languages.
How many famous people were born in Ballydesmond?
1 people born in Ballydesmond have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Ballydesmond known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who counts as from Ballydesmond?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ballydesmond’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?
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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).
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- Denis Mary Bradley: w:John Gilmary Shea is the author of the book., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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