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Timothy Joseph Carroll
born 1940Irish Catholic priest
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Photo: Sarah777 · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Millstreet, Co. Cork
Of the 11 famous people born in Millstreet, an unusual share are athletes
Articles in 5 languages make the Irish Catholic priest Timothy Joseph Carroll the best known. The Irish racecar driver Billy Coleman ranks second, ahead of Thomas Meaney. Between 1922 and 1969, 8 were born, the most of any period. Only 22 of the 97 towns in Co. Cork with anyone on record list more.
Born here
11
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Timothy Joseph Carroll
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1846
John Hooper
Youngest
1951
John Coleman
Most common field
Sports
7 people
What stands out about Millstreet’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Millstreet is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 2 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Millstreet
Three names lead: Timothy Joseph Carroll (5 languages), Billy Coleman (4) and Thomas Meaney (4).
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Through the years
When Millstreet’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1940s than in any other ten years, 4 in all.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Millstreet
8 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is Macroom’s, with 25.
Questions about famous people from Millstreet
Who is the most famous person from Millstreet?
Timothy Joseph Carroll (Irish Catholic priest) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Billy Coleman and Thomas Meaney.
How many famous people were born in Millstreet?
11 people born in Millstreet have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 13 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Millstreet known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 7 of the 11. That is 64% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Millstreet?
John Hooper, born in 1846. The youngest on the list was born in 1951.
Who counts as from Millstreet?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Millstreet’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).
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- Bambie Thug: Arkland, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pat O'Callaghan: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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