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Photo: Oliver Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Dromore West, Co. Sligo
The Irish artist Patrick Collins is the one famous person from Dromore West
The one name here is Patrick Collins, the Irish artist. Go 15 km to Enniscrone and the list has one name, Lily Yeats. Readers can find them written up in one language. 12 towns in Co. Sligo have at least one famous person on record.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Patrick Collins
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
Most common field
Writing & Arts
1 person
The best known
Born in Dromore West
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Enniscrone has the most on record.
Questions about famous people from Dromore West
Who is the most famous person from Dromore West?
Patrick Collins (Irish artist) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 1 languages.
How many famous people were born in Dromore West?
1 people born in Dromore West have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Dromore West known for?
Among its famous people, writers and artists: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 12% across Irish towns.
Who counts as from Dromore West?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Dromore West’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.
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