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Photo: Patrice78500 · Public domainFamous people · Ballyduff, Co. Kerry
14 famous people were born in Ballyduff, most of them between the Union and 1870
Pádraig Boyle, the Irish hurler, is the most widely known, written about in 2 languages. The next two names are Barry O'Grady and Brendan Hennessy. Over 138 years of births, the list goes from Timothy Joseph O'Shea (1860) to Jack Goulding (1998). Only 4 of the 32 towns in Co. Kerry with anyone on record list more.
Born here
14
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Pádraig Boyle
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1860
Timothy Joseph O'Shea
Youngest
1998
Jack Goulding
What stands out about Ballyduff’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Ballyduff’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1860s, at 4.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Ballyduff
The three are covered in 2, 1 and 1 languages: Pádraig Boyle, Barry O'Grady and Brendan Hennessy.
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Known for
What Ballyduff is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as athletes, at 1.3 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Ballyduff
11 more names, born between 1860 and 1998.
Timothy Joseph O'Shea
1860–1930Solicitor, member of the Queensland Legislative Council
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Listowel has the most on record, with 21.
Questions about famous people from Ballyduff
Who is the most famous person from Ballyduff?
Pádraig Boyle (Irish hurler) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages. Next come Barry O'Grady and Brendan Hennessy.
How many famous people were born in Ballyduff?
14 people born in Ballyduff have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 15 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ballyduff?
Timothy Joseph O'Shea, born in 1860. The youngest on the list was born in 1998.
Who counts as from Ballyduff?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ballyduff’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 (1)
- John B. Keane: Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer, 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).