RH#1
Business
Richard Hennessy
?–1800Irish Jacobite merchant
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Killavullen, Co. Cork
Killavullen is the birthplace of 2 famous people
Richard Hennessy, the Irish Jacobite merchant, is the most widely known, written about in 5 languages. The other is Brian O'Driscoll, the Irish hurler. For more famous names, Mallow is 8 km away: its list has 34, led by Paul Kane. The longest list in Co. Cork is Cork’s, with 712 names.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Richard Hennessy
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1976
Brian O'Driscoll
Most common field
Business
1 person
The best known
Born in Killavullen
BO#2
Known for
What Killavullen is known for
1 of them work in Business, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The fullest list close by belongs to Mallow, with 34.
Questions about famous people from Killavullen
Who is the most famous person from Killavullen?
Richard Hennessy (Irish Jacobite merchant) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Brian O'Driscoll.
How many famous people were born in Killavullen?
2 people born in Killavullen have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 3 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Killavullen known for?
Among its famous people, business people: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 2% across Irish towns.
Who counts as from Killavullen?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Killavullen’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
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