RK#1
Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainFamous people · Tyrrellspass, Co. Westmeath
4 famous people call Tyrrellspass their birthplace
Articles in 6 languages make the singing Irish priest Ray Kelly the best known. Joseph Whelehan, the Irish politician, comes second, with Katherine O'Doherty third. Over 72 years of births, the list goes from Katherine O'Doherty (1881) to Ray Kelly (1953). No town in Co. Westmeath lists more than Athlone, with 71.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Ray Kelly
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1881
Katherine O'Doherty
Youngest
1953
Ray Kelly
Most common field
Faith
1 person
The best known
Born in Tyrrellspass
Counted by languages, Ray Kelly is ahead of Joseph Whelehan and Katherine O'Doherty: 6, 3 and 2.
JW#2
Politics & Law
Joseph Whelehan
1882–1968Irish politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
KO#3
Notable
Katherine O'Doherty
1881–1969Irish republican and member of Cumann na mBan (1881-1969)
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Tyrrellspass’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1880s come out on top, with 2 births.
FaithPolitics & LawNotableSports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Tyrrellspass is known for
Faith leads the fields, with 1 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Tyrrellspass
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Mullingar leads the towns around it, with 45 names.
Questions about famous people from Tyrrellspass
Who is the most famous person from Tyrrellspass?
Ray Kelly (singing Irish priest) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 6 languages. Next come Joseph Whelehan and Katherine O'Doherty.
How many famous people were born in Tyrrellspass?
4 people born in Tyrrellspass have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 5 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Tyrrellspass known for?
Among its famous people, clergy and people of faith: 1 of the 4. That is 25% of the town’s list, against 4% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Tyrrellspass?
Katherine O'Doherty, born in 1881. The youngest on the list was born in 1953.
Who counts as from Tyrrellspass?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Tyrrellspass’ 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 (4)
- Niall Horan: Office of the President of the United States, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Cowen: US Government / The White House, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Barry Cowen: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John J. Glennon: J.C. Strauss, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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