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Photo: Brian Herrity · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Mountcharles, Co. Donegal
From 1830 to 2003, Mountcharles was the birthplace of 6 famous people
Articles in 6 languages make the Irish poet Seumas MacManus the best known. The list’s best known name, Seumas MacManus, dates from 1868. Fewer than a quarter of the 33 towns in Co. Donegal with famous people list more. The longest list in Co. Donegal is Letterkenny’s, with 49 names.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Seumas MacManus
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1830
Stephen Joseph McGroarty
Youngest
2003
Jamie Meehan
Most common field
Writing & Arts
1 person
The best known
Born in Mountcharles
First, Seumas MacManus (6 languages), then Jamie Meehan (5) and Stephen Joseph McGroarty (2).
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Military
Stephen Joseph McGroarty
1830–1870Irish American soldier
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Mountcharles’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1860s, at 1.
Writing & ArtsSportsMilitaryPolitics & LawScience & MedicineNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Mountcharles is known for
The field with the most names is Writing & Arts: 1.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Mountcharles
3 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Donegal: 17.
Questions about famous people from Mountcharles
Who is the most famous person from Mountcharles?
Seumas MacManus (Irish poet) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 6 languages. Next come Jamie Meehan and Stephen Joseph McGroarty.
How many famous people were born in Mountcharles?
6 people born in Mountcharles have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Mountcharles known for?
Among its famous people, writers and artists: 1 of the 6. That is 17% of the town’s list, against 12% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Mountcharles?
Stephen Joseph McGroarty, born in 1830. The youngest on the list was born in 2003.
Who counts as from Mountcharles?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Mountcharles’ 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 (1)
- Mark Farren: Johnfullerton at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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