Photo: C O'Flanagan · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person from Kilmessan yet, but Navan next door has 32
The longest list in Co. Meath is Navan’s, with 32 names. Trim has the second-longest list in Co. Meath, after Navan, with 12. In Co. Meath, 22 towns have someone on the list. The best known born in Navan is Francis Beaufort.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Kilmessan’s urban area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Kilmessan yet.
Famous people born near Kilmessan
The fullest list close by belongs to Navan, with 32.
Navan · 10 kmFrancis Beaufort & 31 more
Trim · 8 kmTim Clancy & 11 moreJMAthboy · 19 kmJamie McGrath & 5 moreFLSlane · 18 kmFrancis Ledwidge & 3 moreLMEnfield · 20 kmLuke McNally & 3 moreAWDunshaughlin · 10 kmAdderley Edward Wilkinson & 2 moreASRatoath · 15 kmAngela Scanlon & 2 moreCCAshbourne · 18 kmColm Condon & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Kilmessan
Who counts as from Kilmessan?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Kilmessan’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)
- Francis Beaufort: Stephen Pearce, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tim Clancy: Alasdair Middleton from Rothesay, Scotland, CC BY 2.0, 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).