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Photo: Aiden Clarke · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
2 famous people call Ballinderreen their birthplace
The best known is the Irish hurler Colin Coen, with articles in 2 languages. The only other name is the Irish hurler Mick Gill. Mick Gill (1899) and Colin Coen (1978) mark the two ends of the list. The nearest list is in Castlegar, 15 km away: 6 names, starting with Joe Connolly.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Colin Coen
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1899
Mick Gill
Youngest
1978
Colin Coen
The best known
Born in Ballinderreen
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Castlegar has the most on record, with 6.
Questions about famous people from Ballinderreen
Who is the most famous person from Ballinderreen?
Colin Coen (Irish hurler) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages. Next come Mick Gill.
How many famous people were born in Ballinderreen?
2 people born in Ballinderreen have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ballinderreen?
Mick Gill, born in 1899. The youngest on the list was born in 1978.
Who counts as from Ballinderreen?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ballinderreen’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 (3)
- Hildegarde Naughton: House of the Oireachtas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Grady: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Séamus Brennan: Flickr user "Justsplit.com", CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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