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Famous people · Cashel, Co. Tipperary
26 famous people were born in Cashel, more of them leaders than in most towns
Denis Leamy, the Irish rugby union player, is the most widely known, written about in 7 languages. Between 1922 and 1969, 9 were born, the most of any period. The list is still growing: 7 were born since 1970. From Kessog to Diarmuid Barron, the births on the list run from 460 to 1999.
Born here
26
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Denis Leamy
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
460
Kessog
Youngest
1999
Diarmuid Barron
Most common field
Sports
7 people
What stands out about Cashel’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Cashel is known for
Set against the usual town, leaders come out 1.7 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When Cashel’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1970s, at 3.
SportsPolitics & LawNotableFaithWriting & ArtsMilitaryBusiness
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Cashel
First, Denis Leamy (7 languages), then Noel Davern (7) and John Lanigan (5).
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Politics & Law
Noel Davern
1945–2013Irish politician (1945–2013)
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Everyone
Everyone else born in Cashel
Still to come: 23 more, from 460 to 1999.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Thurles counts 73 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Cashel
Who is the most famous person from Cashel?
Denis Leamy (Irish rugby union player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 7 languages. Next come Noel Davern and John Lanigan.
How many famous people were born in Cashel?
26 people born in Cashel have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 30 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Cashel known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 7 of the 26. That is 27% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Cashel?
Kessog, born in 460. The youngest on the list was born in 1999.
Who counts as from Cashel?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Cashel’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 (6)
- Paddy Mac Carthy: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael O'Keefe: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Patrick Perkins: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kerry Condon: Howard M. Shum, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John O'Leary: Frederick Hollyer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie: Bassano Ltd, 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).