MC#1
Sports
Mabel Cahill
1863–1905Irish tennis player (1863-1905)
19 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: A.-K. D. · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Ballyragget, Co. Kilkenny
Mabel Cahill tops a list of 9 famous people born in Ballyragget
The best known is the Irish tennis player Mabel Cahill, with articles in 19 languages. The list runs from Patrick Phelan, born in 1795, to Kevin Kelly, born in 1993. In the Revival and independence years, 3 were born, the most of any period. 2 were born in 1970 or later.
Born here
9
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Mabel Cahill
19 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1795
Patrick Phelan
Youngest
1993
Kevin Kelly
The best known
Born in Ballyragget
Clergy and people of faith take two of the three places.
RP#2
Faith
Richard Phelan
1828–1904Catholic bishop (1828–1904)
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
PP#3
Faith
Patrick Phelan
1795–1857Catholic bishop (1795-1857)
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Ballyragget’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1990s, with 2 people born in that decade.
NotableSportsFaith
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Ballyragget is known for
2 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Ballyragget
A further 6 follow, born between 1890 and 1993.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 20 km of Ballyragget, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Ballyragget
Who is the most famous person from Ballyragget?
Mabel Cahill (Irish tennis player (1863-1905)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 19 languages. Next come Richard Phelan and Patrick Phelan.
How many famous people were born in Ballyragget?
9 people born in Ballyragget have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ballyragget?
Patrick Phelan, born in 1795. The youngest on the list was born in 1993.
Who counts as from Ballyragget?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ballyragget’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)
- Phil Hogan: EU2016 NL from The Netherlands, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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