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Photo: Gordon Hatton · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Unionhall, Co. Cork
Unionhall has one famous person on record
The Irish Gaelic footballer Brian Hurley was born in 1992. Their story is told in one language so far. The neighbour with the longest list is Clonakilty, 19 km away: 32, led by Michael Collins. In Co. Cork, 97 towns have someone on the list.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Brian Hurley
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1992
Brian Hurley
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Unionhall
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Clonakilty lists the most people: 32.
Questions about famous people from Unionhall
Who is the most famous person from Unionhall?
Brian Hurley (Irish Gaelic footballer) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 1 languages.
How many famous people were born in Unionhall?
1 people born in Unionhall have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Unionhall known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who counts as from Unionhall?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Unionhall’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)
- Michael Collins: Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Agnes Mary Clerke: Hayman Selig Mendelssohn (1847–1908), Public domain, 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).