CM#1
Sports
Con Moulson
1906–1989Irish footballer and manager (1906-1989)
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Padraigobrian · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Clogheen, Co. Tipperary
4 famous people were born in Clogheen
Articles in 4 languages make the Irish footballer and manager Con Moulson the best known. The next two names are Nan Joyce and George Moulson. Con Moulson (1906) and John Moroney (1945) mark the two ends of the list. More are athletes than anything else, 3 in all.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Con Moulson
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1906
Con Moulson
Youngest
1945
John Moroney
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Clogheen
Languages with an article: 4 for Con Moulson, 3 for Nan Joyce, 2 for George Moulson.
NJ#2
Politics & Law
Nan Joyce
1940–2018Irish Traveller and activist
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
GM#3
Sports
George Moulson
1914–1994Irish footballer (1914-1994)
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Clogheen’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1940s come out on top, with 2 births.
SportsPolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Clogheen is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 2.3 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Clogheen
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Lismore has the most on record, with 16.
Questions about famous people from Clogheen
Who is the most famous person from Clogheen?
Con Moulson (Irish footballer and manager (1906-1989)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come Nan Joyce and George Moulson.
How many famous people were born in Clogheen?
4 people born in Clogheen have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Clogheen known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 3 of the 4. That is 75% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Clogheen?
Con Moulson, born in 1906. The youngest on the list was born in 1945.
Who counts as from Clogheen?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Clogheen’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)
- David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie: Bassano Ltd, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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