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Science & Medicine
James Meehan
1774–1826Irish-Australian explorer and surveyor
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Mike Searle · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Shinrone, Co. Offaly
6 famous people were born in Shinrone from 1774 to 1962
James Meehan, the Irish-Australian explorer and surveyor, is the most widely known, written about in 2 languages. The Irish politician Tom Enright ranks second, ahead of Brendan Keeshan. The largest group, 4, was born between 1922 and 1969. Fewer than a quarter of the 17 towns in Co. Offaly with famous people list more.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
James Meehan
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1774
James Meehan
Youngest
1962
Pat Cleary
What stands out about Shinrone’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Shinrone’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1950s, with 2 people born in that decade.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Shinrone
James Meehan leads with articles in 2 languages, ahead of Tom Enright (2) and Brendan Keeshan (1).
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Known for
What Shinrone is known for
Share of Shinrone’s famous people in each field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
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Everyone else born in Shinrone
3 more, from 1951 to 1962.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Birr: 56.
Questions about famous people from Shinrone
Who is the most famous person from Shinrone?
James Meehan (Irish-Australian explorer and surveyor) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages. Next come Tom Enright and Brendan Keeshan.
How many famous people were born in Shinrone?
6 people born in Shinrone have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 7 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Shinrone?
James Meehan, born in 1774. The youngest on the list was born in 1962.
Who counts as from Shinrone?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Shinrone’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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