#1Famous people · Blarney, Co. Cork
Blarney is the birthplace of 6 famous people
Most widely known is Matt Griffin, the Irish automobile racer, with articles in 6 languages. Close behind are Conor McCarthy and Vera McWeeney. The largest group, 3, was born since 1970. Per head, the list is long: 21.6 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Co. Cork has 13.4.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Matt Griffin
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1909
Vera McWeeney
Youngest
1998
Conor McCarthy
Most common field
Sports
3 people
What stands out about Blarney’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Blarney’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1990s come out on top, with 1 births.
SportsNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Blarney
The three best known are all athletes.
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Sports
Vera McWeeney
1909–1981Irish hockey and tennis player, and sports journalist
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Blarney 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.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Blarney
Here are 3 more, born from 1946 to 1987.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Bishopstown counts 15 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Blarney
Who is the most famous person from Blarney?
Matt Griffin (Irish automobile racer) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 6 languages. Next come Conor McCarthy and Vera McWeeney.
How many famous people were born in Blarney?
6 people born in Blarney have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 8 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Blarney known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 3 of the 6. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Blarney?
Vera McWeeney, born in 1909. The youngest on the list was born in 1998.
Who counts as from Blarney?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Blarney’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 (3)
- Matt Griffin: Robk23oxf, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Horace de Vere Cole: Believed to be James Lafayette. For further information, see the talk page., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ricky Dineen: Ricky Dineen, 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).