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Famous people · Ballysimon, Co. Wexford
Ballysimon is the birthplace of 2 famous people
Billy Rowesome, the Irish hurler, is the most widely known, written about in one language. The other is Mary Walsh, the camogie player. The list’s best known name, Billy Rowesome, dates from 1956. Of its neighbours, Enniscorthy, 7 km away, lists the most: 32, Colm Tóibín first.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Billy Rowesome
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1956
Billy Rowesome
The best known
Born in Ballysimon
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Enniscorthy has the longest list next door: 32.
Questions about famous people from Ballysimon
Who is the most famous person from Ballysimon?
Billy Rowesome (Irish hurler) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 1 languages. Next come Mary Walsh.
How many famous people were born in Ballysimon?
2 people born in Ballysimon have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
Who counts as from Ballysimon?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ballysimon’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.
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