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Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Glanworth, Co. Cork
3 famous people call Glanworth their birthplace
Most widely known is Ned Kirby, the gaelic football player, with articles in 2 languages. Second and third on the list are Donal Aherne and Tom Barry. Go 8 km to Fermoy and the list grows to 24, with Michelle O'Neill at the top. The list runs from Tom Barry, born in 1879, to Donal Aherne, born in 1950.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Ned Kirby
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1879
Tom Barry
Youngest
1950
Donal Aherne
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Glanworth
The three best known are all athletes.
DA#2
Sports
Donal Aherne
born 1950Irish Gaelic footballer and coach
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
TB#3
Sports
Tom Barry
1879–1969Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Fermoy counts 24 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Glanworth
Who is the most famous person from Glanworth?
Ned Kirby (gaelic football player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages. Next come Donal Aherne and Tom Barry.
How many famous people were born in Glanworth?
3 people born in Glanworth have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 4 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Glanworth known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 3 of the 3. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Glanworth?
Tom Barry, born in 1879. The youngest on the list was born in 1950.
Who counts as from Glanworth?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Glanworth’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)
- Michelle O'Neill: Sinn Féin, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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