Photo: Ian S · CC BY-SA 2.0Next door to Drumkeen, Letterkenny lists 49 famous people
Of the famous people on record, none was born in Drumkeen. 33 towns in Co. Donegal have at least one famous person on record. No town in Co. Donegal lists more than Letterkenny, with 49. After Letterkenny, the next longest list in Co. Donegal is Donegal’s, with 17.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Drumkeen’s urban area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Drumkeen yet.
Famous people born near Drumkeen
Close by, Letterkenny counts 49 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Drumkeen
Who counts as from Drumkeen?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Drumkeen’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)
- Philip Deignan: Balloholic, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frances Browne: Unknown author Unknown author, 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).