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Politics & Law
Colm Condon
1921–2008Irish Attorney General
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Trounce · CC BY-SA 2.5Famous people · Ashbourne, Co. Meath
3 famous people were born in Ashbourne
The best known is the Irish Attorney general Colm Condon, with articles in 5 languages. Dawson Devoy is second and Kevin Toner third. Nearby, Dunboyne, 12 km away, lists 8, led by John Bruton. From Colm Condon to Dawson Devoy, the births on the list run from 1921 to 2001.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Colm Condon
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1921
Colm Condon
Youngest
2001
Dawson Devoy
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Ashbourne
Two of the three are athletes.
DD#2
KT#3
Sports
Kevin Toner
born 1996Irish association football player
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Ashbourne is known for
2 of them work in Sports, the biggest 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
Dunboyne has the longest list next door: 8.
Questions about famous people from Ashbourne
Who is the most famous person from Ashbourne?
Colm Condon (Irish Attorney General) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Dawson Devoy and Kevin Toner.
How many famous people were born in Ashbourne?
3 people born in Ashbourne have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 4 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Ashbourne known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 3. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ashbourne?
Colm Condon, born in 1921. The youngest on the list was born in 2001.
Who counts as from Ashbourne?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ashbourne’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 (4)
- John Bruton: Friends of Europe, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Graham Carey: Biser Todorov, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Francis Taylor: psyberartist, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Roderic O'Gorman: Roderic O'Gorman, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).