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Photo: Barry Hunter · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Rathkeale, Co. Limerick
4 famous people call Rathkeale their birthplace
At the top of the list is the Irish rugby union player Bill Mulcahy, covered in 3 languages. Close behind are John Conway Bourke and Patrick F. Dealy. Births span 1766 to 1935, from Samuel Crumpe to Bill Mulcahy. Limerick has the most of any town in Co. Limerick: 363.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Bill Mulcahy
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1766
Samuel Crumpe
Youngest
1935
Bill Mulcahy
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Rathkeale
First, Bill Mulcahy (3 languages), then John Conway Bourke (2) and Patrick F. Dealy (2).
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Science & Medicine
Patrick F. Dealy
1827–1891Irish-American educator
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Rathkeale’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1930s than in any other ten years, 1 in all.
SportsNotableScience & MedicineWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Rathkeale is known for
Share of Rathkeale’s famous people in each field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Rathkeale
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Croom lists the most people: 12.
Questions about famous people from Rathkeale
Who is the most famous person from Rathkeale?
Bill Mulcahy (Irish rugby union player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 3 languages. Next come John Conway Bourke and Patrick F. Dealy.
How many famous people were born in Rathkeale?
4 people born in Rathkeale have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Rathkeale known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 4. That is 25% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Rathkeale?
Samuel Crumpe, born in 1766. The youngest on the list was born in 1935.
Who counts as from Rathkeale?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Rathkeale’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)
- 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).