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Photo: Hywel Williams · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Killumney, Co. Cork
5 famous people call Killumney their birthplace
The best known is the Irish footballer Tyreik Wright, with articles in 5 languages. Second place goes to the Irish Gaelic footballer Colm O'Callaghan, third to Colm Sheehan. The largest group, 3, was born since 1970. Births span 1888 to 2001, from Paddy O'Connell to Tyreik Wright.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Tyreik Wright
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1888
Paddy O'Connell
Youngest
2001
Tyreik Wright
Most common field
Sports
4 people
What stands out about Killumney’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Killumney’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 2000s than in any other ten years, 1 in all.
SportsNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Killumney
Tyreik Wright has articles in 5 languages, Colm O'Callaghan in 2 and Colm Sheehan in 1.
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Sports
Colm O'Callaghan
born 1999Irish Gaelic footballer
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Known for
What Killumney is known for
Athletes stand out most, at 2.5 times the usual share.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Killumney
Another 2, 2 of them athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Bishopstown has the most on record: 15.
Questions about famous people from Killumney
Who is the most famous person from Killumney?
Tyreik Wright (Irish footballer) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Colm O'Callaghan and Colm Sheehan.
How many famous people were born in Killumney?
5 people born in Killumney have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 6 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Killumney known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 4 of the 5. That is 80% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Killumney?
Paddy O'Connell, born in 1888. The youngest on the list was born in 2001.
Who counts as from Killumney?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Killumney’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)
- Horace de Vere Cole: Believed to be James Lafayette. For further information, see the talk page., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Griffin: Robk23oxf, 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).