#1Politics & Law
William Travers
1819–1903New Zealand lawyer, politician, explorer, naturalist and photographer (1819–1903)
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Famous people · Newcastle West, Co. Limerick
Newcastle West’s famous people span 154 years: 9 births from 1805 to 1959
William Travers leads the list, covered in 5 languages. The Irish paleozoologist Alexander Carte ranks second, ahead of Cliodhna Cussen. The largest group, 4, was born between the Union and 1870. Per head, the list is long: 12.5 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Co. Limerick has 3.3.
Born here
9
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
William Travers
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1805
Alexander Carte
Youngest
1959
Máighréad Medbh
Most common field
Writing & Arts
3 people
The best known
Born in Newcastle West
The three are covered in 5, 4 and 4 languages: William Travers, Alexander Carte and Cliodhna Cussen.
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Science & Medicine
Alexander Carte
1805–1881Irish paleozoologist (1805-1881)
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Through the years
When Newcastle West’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1930s than in any other decade: 2.
Writing & ArtsScience & MedicineMilitaryPolitics & LawSports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Newcastle West is known for
Set against the usual town, writers and artists come out 2.9 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Newcastle West
6 more, 2 of them soldiers and sailors.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Abbeyfeale’s, at 7 names.
Questions about famous people from Newcastle West
Who is the most famous person from Newcastle West?
William Travers (New Zealand lawyer, politician, explorer, naturalist and photographer (1819–1903)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Alexander Carte and Cliodhna Cussen.
How many famous people were born in Newcastle West?
9 people born in Newcastle West have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 14 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Newcastle West known for?
Among its famous people, writers and artists: 3 of the 9. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 12% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Newcastle West?
Alexander Carte, born in 1805. The youngest on the list was born in 1959.
Who counts as from Newcastle West?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Newcastle West’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 (3)
- William Travers: Photographer unidentified, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ursula O'Farrell: Ubyrne, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Nash: Burnham, Brixton (no individual credited), 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).