WT#1
Writing & Arts
William Trevor
1928–2016Irish writer (1928–2016)
33 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Mitchelstown, Co. Cork
11 famous people were born in Mitchelstown, most of them between 1922 and 1969
William Trevor, the Irish writer, is the most widely known, written about in 33 languages. Behind the leader come Seán Clancy and Liam Hamilton. For every 10,000 residents there are 29.4 on the list, well above the typical Co. Cork town’s 13.4. Only 22 of the 97 towns in Co. Cork with anyone on record list more.
Born here
11
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
William Trevor
33 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1773
Margaret King
Youngest
1966
Seán Clancy
Most common field
Writing & Arts
3 people
The best known
Born in Mitchelstown
William Trevor has articles in 33 languages, Seán Clancy in 6 and Liam Hamilton in 5.
#2Military
Seán Clancy
born 1966Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces of Ireland
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
LH#3
Politics & Law
Liam Hamilton
1928–2000Irish lawyer and judge
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Mitchelstown’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1940s than in any other ten years, 3 in all.
Writing & ArtsSportsPolitics & LawMilitaryFaithBusiness
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Mitchelstown is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as writers and artists, at 2.4 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Mitchelstown
The rest number 8, with 3 athletes among them.
Charles Kingston O'Mahony
1884–1944Irish journalist and author (c. 1884–1944)
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Cornelius Chamberlain
1882–1943Australian rules footballer and cricketer (1882-1943)
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Fermoy lists the most people: 24.
Questions about famous people from Mitchelstown
Who is the most famous person from Mitchelstown?
William Trevor (Irish writer (1928–2016)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 33 languages. Next come Seán Clancy and Liam Hamilton.
How many famous people were born in Mitchelstown?
11 people born in Mitchelstown have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 12 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Mitchelstown known for?
Among its famous people, writers and artists: 3 of the 11. That is 27% of the town’s list, against 12% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Mitchelstown?
Margaret King, born in 1773. The youngest on the list was born in 1966.
Who counts as from Mitchelstown?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Mitchelstown’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 (5)
- Seán Clancy: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from Washington D.C, United States, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Margaret King: tba, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Roach: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Kingston O'Mahony: Anonymous Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Michelle O'Neill: Sinn Féin, CC BY 2.0, 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).