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Famous people · Killenard, Co. Laois
Killenard has just one famous person to its name: Peter O'Leary
In 1985, the gaelic football player Peter O'Leary was born. Readers can find them written up in one language. The nearest list is in Portlaoise, 14 km away: 46 names, starting with Robert Sheehan. The Co. Laois lists hold names for 15 towns.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Peter O'Leary
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1985
Peter O'Leary
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Killenard
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Portlaoise has the longest list next door: 46.
Portlaoise · 14 kmRobert Sheehan & 45 moreABKildare · 17 kmAisling Bea & 27 more
Athy · 19 kmGeorge Lyttleton Rogers & 10 more
Mountmellick · 12 kmCharles Flanagan & 9 more
Rathangan · 14 kmGeorge Pomeroy Colley & 5 moreAHPortarlington · 4 kmAoife Hoey & 4 more
Monasterevin · 6 kmWilloughby James Hamilton & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Killenard
Who is the most famous person from Killenard?
Peter O'Leary (gaelic football player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 1 languages.
How many famous people were born in Killenard?
1 people born in Killenard have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Killenard known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who counts as from Killenard?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Killenard’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 (5)
- Robert Sheehan: Luigi Novi, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Lyttleton Rogers: Unknown (Bassano Ltd), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Flanagan: Department of Children and Youth Affairs, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Pomeroy Colley: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Willoughby James Hamilton: Robinson (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).