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Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainFamous people · Killeigh, Co. Offaly
Killeigh, birthplace of the gaelic football player Mick O'Rourke
The gaelic football player Mick O'Rourke was born in 1946. Their birth falls between 1922 and 1969. 2 languages have an article about them. Of its neighbours, Tullamore, 7 km away, lists the most: 39, Brian Cowen first.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Mick O'Rourke
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1946
Mick O'Rourke
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Killeigh
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, 7 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Killeigh
Who is the most famous person from Killeigh?
Mick O'Rourke (gaelic football player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages.
How many famous people were born in Killeigh?
1 people born in Killeigh have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Killeigh known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who counts as from Killeigh?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Killeigh’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?
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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 (3)
- Brian Cowen: US Government / The White House, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Flanagan: Department of Children and Youth Affairs, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Barry Cowen: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 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).