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Photo: Sarah777 · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
Castlecomer’s famous people span 179 years: 14 births from 1817 to 1996
Articles in 6 languages make the Irish boxer Mick Dowling the best known. Since 1970, 5 were born, the most of any period. Mick Dowling was born in 1946. 2 of them are leaders, more than in any other field.
Born here
14
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Mick Dowling
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1817
Michael Phelan
Youngest
1996
Conor Delaney
What stands out about Castlecomer’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Castlecomer’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1940s than in any other decade: 3.
NotablePolitics & LawSportsWriting & ArtsMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Castlecomer
Counted by languages, Mick Dowling is ahead of Michael Phelan and Eamonn Coogan: 6, 4 and 3.
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Writing & Arts
Michael Phelan
1817–1871American writer (1817-1871)
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Known for
What Castlecomer is known for
The largest field is Politics & Law, with 2 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Castlecomer
11 more names, born between 1832 and 1996.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Kilkenny lists the most people: 179.
Questions about famous people from Castlecomer
Who is the most famous person from Castlecomer?
Mick Dowling (Irish boxer) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 6 languages. Next come Michael Phelan and Eamonn Coogan.
How many famous people were born in Castlecomer?
14 people born in Castlecomer have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 16 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Castlecomer?
Michael Phelan, born in 1817. The youngest on the list was born in 1996.
Who counts as from Castlecomer?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Castlecomer’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
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).