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Photo: Nathanfigueredo · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Causeway, Co. Kerry
9 famous people were born in Causeway, most of them since 1970
Martin Casey, the Irish hurler, is the most widely known, written about in 2 languages. The Irish hurler Maurice Leahy ranks second, ahead of Bryan Murphy. Born in 1950, Martin Casey is the first name on record, and Stephen Murphy, born in 1996, the most recent. The longest list of any town in Co. Kerry belongs to Tralee, with 115.
Born here
9
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Martin Casey
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1950
Martin Casey
Youngest
1996
Stephen Murphy
What stands out about Causeway’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Causeway’s famous people were born
The 1990s alone account for 3 of the births charted here.
Notable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Causeway
Martin Casey, Maurice Leahy and Bryan Murphy are written about in 2, 2 and 1 languages.
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Everyone
Everyone else born in Causeway
Still to come: 6 more, from 1983 to 1996.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Tralee has the most people on record, 115 of them.
Questions about famous people from Causeway
Who is the most famous person from Causeway?
Martin Casey (Irish hurler) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages. Next come Maurice Leahy and Bryan Murphy.
How many famous people were born in Causeway?
9 people born in Causeway have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Causeway?
Martin Casey, born in 1950. The youngest on the list was born in 1996.
Who counts as from Causeway?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Causeway’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).