Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainFamous people born near Ballyroan
A short trip away, Portlaoise (10 km) counts 46 famous people, Robert Sheehan among them. The list for Ballyroan is empty for now. 15 towns in Co. Laois have at least one famous person on record. The longest list of any town in Co. Laois belongs to Portlaoise, with 46.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Ballyroan’s urban area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Ballyroan as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Ballyroan
Close by, Portlaoise counts 46 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Ballyroan
Who counts as from Ballyroan?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ballyroan’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 (2)
- Robert Sheehan: Luigi Novi, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Flanagan: Department of Children and Youth Affairs, 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).