#1Politics & Law
Michael Collins
1890–1922Irish revolutionary and politician (1890–1922)
72 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Clonakilty, Co. Cork
32 famous people from Clonakilty, many of them leaders
The best known is the Irish revolutionary and politician Michael Collins, with articles in 72 languages. Moll O'Driscoll, born in 2000, is the youngest, and Alfred Elmore, born in 1815, the first on record. Per head, the list is long: 62.6 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Co. Cork has 13.4. 8 were born in 1970 or later.
Born here
32
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Michael Collins
72 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1815
Alfred Elmore
Youngest
2000
Moll O'Driscoll
Most common field
Sports
16 people
What stands out about Clonakilty’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Clonakilty
Writers and artists take two of the three places.
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Writing & Arts
William Harnett
1848–1892American artist (1848-1892)
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
AE#3
Writing & Arts
Alfred Elmore
1815–1881British artist (1815-1881)
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Clonakilty is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is leaders, at 1.9 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When Clonakilty’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1840s, with 5 births.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Clonakilty
29 more, from 1817 to 2000.
George Bullen
1817–1894Irish-born librarian at the British Museum (circa 1817-1894)
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, 2 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Clonakilty
Who is the most famous person from Clonakilty?
Michael Collins (Irish revolutionary and politician (1890–1922)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 72 languages. Next come William Harnett and Alfred Elmore.
How many famous people were born in Clonakilty?
32 people born in Clonakilty have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 40 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Clonakilty known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 16 of the 32. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Clonakilty?
Alfred Elmore, born in 1815. The youngest on the list was born in 2000.
Who counts as from Clonakilty?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Clonakilty’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 (8)
- Michael Collins: Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Liam Twomey: Communications Unit of Oireachtas, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William O'Brien: Irish Labour Party, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary O'Donovan Rossa: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Timothy Anglin: William James Topley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Travers Atkin: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Timothy Deasy: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Finbarr of Cork: Carsten Hemberger, derivate Hic et nunc, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).