TA#1
Notable
Tim Ahearne
1885–1968Irish long and triple jumper (1885–1968)
19 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Georgelangan · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Athea, Co. Limerick
Athea counts 5 famous people, first among them Tim Ahearne
Most widely known is Tim Ahearne, the Irish long and triple jumper, with articles in 19 languages. Dan Ahearn is second and Kit Ahern third. 5 of them were born in the Revival and independence years, more than in any other period. From Tim Ahearne in 1885 to Kit Ahern in 1915, the births cover 30 years.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Tim Ahearne
19 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1885
Tim Ahearne
Youngest
1915
Kit Ahern
The best known
Born in Athea
Ranked by languages covered: Tim Ahearne with 19, then Dan Ahearn with 7 and Kit Ahern with 5.
DA#2
Notable
Dan Ahearn
1888–1942Irish-American triple jumper
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
KA#3
Through the years
When Athea’s famous people were born
The 1880s saw the most births of any decade: 2.
NotablePolitics & LawWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Athea is known for
Politics & Law leads the fields, with 2 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Athea
The other 2 span the years 1900 to 1913.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
3 towns around it have someone on record.
Questions about famous people from Athea
Who is the most famous person from Athea?
Tim Ahearne (Irish long and triple jumper (1885–1968)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 19 languages. Next come Dan Ahearn and Kit Ahern.
How many famous people were born in Athea?
5 people born in Athea have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 6 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Athea?
Tim Ahearne, born in 1885. The youngest on the list was born in 1915.
Who counts as from Athea?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Athea’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)
- John B. Keane: Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Travers: Photographer unidentified, 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).