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Ger Cunningham
born 1961Irish hurler and Gaelic football player
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Togher, Cork
Athletes stand out among the 9 famous people born in Togher
The best known is the Irish hurler and Gaelic football player Ger Cunningham, with articles in 3 languages. The next two names are Brian Roche and Des O'Grady. Between 1922 and 1969, 6 were born, the most of any period. 3 were born in 1970 or later.
Born here
9
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Ger Cunningham
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1931
Mossie Finn
Youngest
1994
Sam Ryan
Most common field
Sports
7 people
What stands out about Togher’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Togher is known for
Athletes stand out most, at 2.4 times the usual share.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When Togher’s famous people were born
The 1970s saw the most births of any decade: 2.
SportsNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Togher
The three are covered in 3, 2 and 2 languages: Ger Cunningham, Brian Roche and Des O'Grady.
BR#2
Sports
Brian Roche
born 1974Irish rugby union player and coach
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Everyone else born in Togher
The rest number 6, with 4 athletes among them.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 20 km of Togher, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Togher
Who is the most famous person from Togher?
Ger Cunningham (Irish hurler and Gaelic football player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 3 languages. Next come Brian Roche and Des O'Grady.
How many famous people were born in Togher?
9 people born in Togher have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 11 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Togher known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 7 of the 9. That is 78% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Togher?
Mossie Finn, born in 1931. The youngest on the list was born in 1994.
Who counts as from Togher?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Togher’s neighbourhood (its Census 2022 Small Areas), 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. In Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford a birth recorded only as the city stays on the city’s page; a neighbourhood lists only people recorded as born in it.
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)
- Des O'Grady: 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).