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Photo: Oliver Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim
Carrigallen’s famous people span 159 years: 4 births from 1841 to 2000
David Rawle, the Irish actor, is the most widely known, written about in 4 languages. The Irish politician Paul Galligan ranks second, ahead of Sir Thomas Jackson, 1st Baronet. The list’s best known name, David Rawle, dates from 2000. Leaders make up the largest group, 3 of them.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
David Rawle
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1841
Sir Thomas Jackson, 1st Baronet
Youngest
2000
David Rawle
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
The best known
Born in Carrigallen
Two of the three are leaders.
PG#2
Politics & Law
Paul Galligan
1888–1966Irish politician (1888-1966)
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
SB#3
Politics & Law
Sir Thomas Jackson, 1st Baronet
1841–1915British baronet (1841-1915)
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Carrigallen’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1880s than in any other decade: 2.
Politics & LawFilm, TV & Stage
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Carrigallen is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as leaders, at 4.7 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Carrigallen
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with the most names is Cavan, at 25.
Questions about famous people from Carrigallen
Who is the most famous person from Carrigallen?
David Rawle (Irish actor) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come Paul Galligan and Sir Thomas Jackson, 1st Baronet.
How many famous people were born in Carrigallen?
4 people born in Carrigallen have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Carrigallen known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 3 of the 4. That is 75% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Carrigallen?
Sir Thomas Jackson, 1st Baronet, born in 1841. The youngest on the list was born in 2000.
Who counts as from Carrigallen?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Carrigallen’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)
- Brendan Smith: Houses of the Oireachtas, 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).