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Famous people · Toornafulla, Co. Limerick
Toornafulla’s famous people span 231 years: 2 births from 1715 to 1946
At the top of the list is the Irish poet Timothy Sullivan, covered in 2 languages. The only other name is the Irish hurler Séamus Horgan. The neighbour with the longest list is Newcastle West, 11 km away: 9, led by William Travers. The list’s best known name, Timothy Sullivan, dates from 1715.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Timothy Sullivan
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1715
Timothy Sullivan
Youngest
1946
Séamus Horgan
Most common field
Writing & Arts
1 person
The best known
Born in Toornafulla
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Known for
What Toornafulla is known for
Share of Toornafulla’s famous people in each field.
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 fullest list close by belongs to Newcastle West, with 9.
Questions about famous people from Toornafulla
Who is the most famous person from Toornafulla?
Timothy Sullivan (Irish poet) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages. Next come Séamus Horgan.
How many famous people were born in Toornafulla?
2 people born in Toornafulla have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Toornafulla known for?
Among its famous people, writers and artists: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 12% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Toornafulla?
Timothy Sullivan, born in 1715. The youngest on the list was born in 1946.
Who counts as from Toornafulla?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Toornafulla’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).