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Photo: Pete Souza ( Executive Office of the President of the United States ) · Public domainFamous people · Moneygall, Co. Offaly
Moneygall’s famous people span 108 years: 6 births from 1833 to 1941
Most widely known is Patrick Cronin, the Catholic archbishop, with articles in 5 languages. Second and third on the list are Joseph Prosser and Jer Collison. The largest group, 3, was born in the Revival and independence years. The list’s best known name, Patrick Cronin, dates from 1913.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Patrick Cronin
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1833
Joseph Prosser
Youngest
1941
John Gleeson
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Moneygall
Three names lead: Patrick Cronin (5 languages), Joseph Prosser (3) and Jer Collison (1).
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Military
Joseph Prosser
1833–1869Recipient of the Victoria Cross
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Through the years
When Moneygall’s famous people were born
The 1910s top the chart, with 2 births in the decade.
SportsNotableFaithMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Moneygall is known for
Share of Moneygall’s famous people in each field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Moneygall
Still to come: 3 more, from 1916 to 1941.
Séamus Ó Riain
1916–2007Irish hurler, Gaelic footballer and Gaelic games administrator (1916-2007)
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Nenagh has the most on record, with 44.
Questions about famous people from Moneygall
Who is the most famous person from Moneygall?
Patrick Cronin (catholic archbishop) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Joseph Prosser and Jer Collison.
How many famous people were born in Moneygall?
6 people born in Moneygall have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Moneygall known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 6. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Moneygall?
Joseph Prosser, born in 1833. The youngest on the list was born in 1941.
Who counts as from Moneygall?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Moneygall’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)
- Daisy Bates: DaisyBates1921.jpg : Matilda derivative work: Regi51, 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).