JM#1
Sports
John McKenna
1855–1936British footballer (1855-1936)
17 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: N-a · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Glaslough, Co. Monaghan
4 famous people come from Glaslough, John McKenna the best known
John McKenna, the British footballer, is the most widely known, written about in 17 languages. Close behind are Charlene McKenna and Alexander Haslett. Born in 1772, John Leslie is the first name on record, and Charlene McKenna, born in 1984, the most recent. The longest list of any town in Co. Monaghan belongs to Monaghan, with 24.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
John McKenna
17 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1772
John Leslie
Youngest
1984
Charlene McKenna
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Glaslough
First, John McKenna (17 languages), then Charlene McKenna (12) and Alexander Haslett (3).
CM#2
Film, TV & Stage
Charlene McKenna
born 1984Irish actress
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
AH#3
Politics & Law
Alexander Haslett
1883–1951Irish politician (1883-1951)
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Glaslough’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1850s, at 1.
SportsFilm, TV & StagePolitics & LawFaith
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Glaslough is known for
The field with the most names is Sports: 1.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Glaslough
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 20 km of Glaslough, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Glaslough
Who is the most famous person from Glaslough?
John McKenna (British footballer (1855-1936)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 17 languages. Next come Charlene McKenna and Alexander Haslett.
How many famous people were born in Glaslough?
4 people born in Glaslough have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 5 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Glaslough 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 Glaslough?
John Leslie, born in 1772. The youngest on the list was born in 1984.
Who counts as from Glaslough?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Glaslough’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)
- Charles Gavan Duffy: not stated, 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).