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Photo: Sarah777 · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Kinnitty, Co. Offaly
5 famous people call Kinnitty their birthplace
Most widely known is Mark Corrigan, the Irish hurler, with articles in 2 languages. Paddy Corrigan is second and James Dempsey third. Born in 1954, Pat Delaney is the first name on record, and James Dempsey, born in 1989, the most recent. No town in Co. Offaly lists more than Birr, with 56.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Mark Corrigan
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1954
Pat Delaney
Youngest
1989
James Dempsey
The best known
Born in Kinnitty
Mark Corrigan, Paddy Corrigan and James Dempsey are written about in 2, 2 and 1 languages.
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Through the years
When Kinnitty’s famous people were born
Most were born between 1922 and 1969 (3); the busiest decade is the 1960s (2).
Notable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Kinnitty
2 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Birr has the most on record, with 56.
Questions about famous people from Kinnitty
Who is the most famous person from Kinnitty?
Mark Corrigan (Irish hurler) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages. Next come Paddy Corrigan and James Dempsey.
How many famous people were born in Kinnitty?
5 people born in Kinnitty have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 8 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Kinnitty?
Pat Delaney, born in 1954. The youngest on the list was born in 1989.
Who counts as from Kinnitty?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Kinnitty’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)
- Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Daisy Bates: DaisyBates1921.jpg : Matilda derivative work: Regi51, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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