Photo: Sarah777 · CC0No one born in Cootehall has made the famous people list yet
Go 9 km to Boyle and the list grows to 9, with Maureen O'Sullivan at the top. 18 of the towns in Co. Roscommon list at least one person. The longest list of any town in Co. Roscommon belongs to Roscommon, with 13. After Roscommon, the next longest list in Co. Roscommon is Ballaghaderreen’s, with 9.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Cootehall’s urban area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Cootehall yet.
Famous people born near Cootehall
Close by, the fullest list is Boyle’s, at 9 names.
Questions about famous people from Cootehall
Who counts as from Cootehall?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Cootehall’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)
- Maureen O'Sullivan: Russell Ball, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Susan L. Mitchell: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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