PO#1
Faith
Patrick Mary O'Donnell
1897–1980Australian Roman Catholic archbishop
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainFamous people · Fethard, Co. Tipperary
From 1768 to 1980, Fethard was the birthplace of 8 famous people
Articles in 6 languages make the Australian Roman Catholic archbishop Patrick Mary O'Donnell the best known. Declan Mulligan is second and Damien Byrne third. 3 of them were born between 1922 and 1969, more than in any other period. Births since 1970 account for 2 of the names.
Born here
8
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Patrick Mary O'Donnell
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1768
Robert Barton
Youngest
1980
Aidan Fitzgerald
Most common field
Sports
3 people
What stands out about Fethard’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Fethard’s famous people were born
The 1930s top the chart, with 2 births in the decade.
SportsMilitaryFaithMusicNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Fethard
By how many languages cover them, Patrick Mary O'Donnell comes first (6), then Declan Mulligan (5) and Damien Byrne (2).
DM#2
Music
Declan Mulligan
1938–2021American guitarist (1938–2021)
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
DB#3
Sports
Damien Byrne
born 1978Irish association football player
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Fethard is known for
The largest field is Sports, with 3 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Fethard
A further 5 follow, born between 1768 and 1980.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Clonmel has the most on record: 79.
Questions about famous people from Fethard
Who is the most famous person from Fethard?
Patrick Mary O'Donnell (Australian Roman Catholic archbishop) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 6 languages. Next come Declan Mulligan and Damien Byrne.
How many famous people were born in Fethard?
8 people born in Fethard have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Fethard known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 3 of the 8. That is 38% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Fethard?
Robert Barton, born in 1768. The youngest on the list was born in 1980.
Who counts as from Fethard?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Fethard’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)
- Laurence Sterne: Joshua Reynolds (died 1792), 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).