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Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Mountrath, Co. Laois
From 1747 to 1975, Mountrath was the birthplace of 3 famous people
Claire Byrne, the Irish journalist, is the most widely known, written about in 6 languages. Second and third on the list are Daniel Delany and Henry Despard. For more famous names, Portlaoise is 13 km away: its list has 46, led by Robert Sheehan. The list’s best known name, Claire Byrne, dates from 1975.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Claire Byrne
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1747
Daniel Delany
Youngest
1975
Claire Byrne
Most common field
Writing & Arts
1 person
The best known
Born in Mountrath
Ranked by languages covered: Claire Byrne with 6, then Daniel Delany with 4 and Henry Despard with 1.
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Known for
What Mountrath is known for
Writing & Arts leads the fields, with 1 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with the most names is Portlaoise, at 46.
Questions about famous people from Mountrath
Who is the most famous person from Mountrath?
Claire Byrne (Irish journalist) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 6 languages. Next come Daniel Delany and Henry Despard.
How many famous people were born in Mountrath?
3 people born in Mountrath have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Mountrath known for?
Among its famous people, writers and artists: 1 of the 3. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 12% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Mountrath?
Daniel Delany, born in 1747. The youngest on the list was born in 1975.
Who counts as from Mountrath?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Mountrath’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).