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Photo: Mike Searle · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Castlegar, Galway
6 famous people call Castlegar their birthplace
An article in one language makes the Irish hurler Joe Connolly the best known so far. Behind the leader come Michael Connolly and Michael Healy. The largest group, 3, was born between 1922 and 1969. The first birth on record is Mick King’s, in 1905, and the last Michael Healy’s, in 1978.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Joe Connolly
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1905
Mick King
Youngest
1978
Michael Healy
What stands out about Castlegar’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Castlegar’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1950s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
Notable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Castlegar
Joe Connolly, Michael Connolly and Michael Healy are written about in 1, 1 and 1 languages.
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Everyone else born in Castlegar
A further 3 follow, born between 1905 and 1927.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Eyre Square has the most on record, with 3.
Questions about famous people from Castlegar
Who is the most famous person from Castlegar?
Joe Connolly (Irish hurler) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 1 languages. Next come Michael Connolly and Michael Healy.
How many famous people were born in Castlegar?
6 people born in Castlegar have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Castlegar?
Mick King, born in 1905. The youngest on the list was born in 1978.
Who counts as from Castlegar?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Castlegar’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)
- Thomas Grady: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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