Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0Next door to Ballyhooly, Mallow lists 34 famous people
Not one famous person on record comes from Ballyhooly yet. Across Co. Cork, 97 towns list someone born there. The longest list in Co. Cork is Cork’s, with 712 names. Mahon has the second-longest list in Co. Cork, after Cork, with 58.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Ballyhooly’s urban area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Ballyhooly yet.
Famous people born near Ballyhooly
Of the towns nearby, Mallow lists the most people: 34.
Questions about famous people from Ballyhooly
Who counts as from Ballyhooly?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ballyhooly’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 (2)
- Paul Kane: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Michelle O'Neill: Sinn Féin, 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).