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Photo: Redmond O'Brien · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Fiddown, Co. Kilkenny
Fiddown has one famous person on record
Mark McDonald, the hurler, was born in 1890. That places their birth in the Revival and independence years. An article about them exists in one language. The neighbour with the longest list is Carrick-on-Suir, 7 km away: 22, led by Liam Clancy.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Mark McDonald
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1890
Mark McDonald
The best known
Born in Fiddown
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is Carrick-on-Suir’s, with 22.
Questions about famous people from Fiddown
Who is the most famous person from Fiddown?
Mark McDonald (hurler) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 1 languages.
How many famous people were born in Fiddown?
1 people born in Fiddown have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
Who counts as from Fiddown?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Fiddown’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)
- Liam Clancy: Junction Festival, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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