SR#1
Sports
Séamus Roche
born 1969Irish hurling referee and Gaelic football player
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: David Purchase · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Kilsheelan, Co. Tipperary
Kilsheelan is the birthplace of 4 famous people
Best known of all is Séamus Roche, written about in 3 languages. The next two names are Mark Kehoe and David Power. More are athletes than anything else, 2 in all. The earliest on the list is Tom Larkin, born in 1931, and the youngest Mark Kehoe, born in 1998.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Séamus Roche
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1931
Tom Larkin
Youngest
1998
Mark Kehoe
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Kilsheelan
Ranked by languages covered: Séamus Roche with 3, then Mark Kehoe with 2 and David Power with 1.
MK#2
DP#3
Sports
David Power
born 1983Irish Gaelic football manager
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Kilsheelan’s famous people were born
The 1960s saw the most births of any decade: 1.
SportsNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Kilsheelan is known for
The largest field is Sports, with 2 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Kilsheelan
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Clonmel has the most people on record, 79 of them.
Questions about famous people from Kilsheelan
Who is the most famous person from Kilsheelan?
Séamus Roche (Irish hurling referee and Gaelic football player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 3 languages. Next come Mark Kehoe and David Power.
How many famous people were born in Kilsheelan?
4 people born in Kilsheelan have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Kilsheelan known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Kilsheelan?
Tom Larkin, born in 1931. The youngest on the list was born in 1998.
Who counts as from Kilsheelan?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Kilsheelan’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
- Liam Clancy: Junction Festival, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).