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Photo: Zxcode · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Riverstown, Co. Sligo
Riverstown, birthplace of the Irish footballer Johnny Kenny
In 2003, the Irish footballer Johnny Kenny was born. 10 languages have an article about them. Of its neighbours, Sligo, 16 km away, lists the most: 77, Neil Jordan first. The longest list of any town in Co. Sligo belongs to Sligo, with 77.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Johnny Kenny
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
2003
Johnny Kenny
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Riverstown
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 20 km of Riverstown, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Riverstown
Who is the most famous person from Riverstown?
Johnny Kenny (Irish footballer) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 10 languages.
How many famous people were born in Riverstown?
1 people born in Riverstown have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Riverstown known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who counts as from Riverstown?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Riverstown’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)
- Maureen O'Sullivan: Russell Ball, 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).