Photo: David Purchase · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Shillelagh has made the famous people list yet
Of its neighbours, Gorey, 19 km away, lists the most: 13, Michael W. D'Arcy first. No town in Co. Wicklow lists more than Bray, with 44. Wicklow has the second-longest list in Co. Wicklow, after Bray, with 32. In Co. Wicklow, 23 towns have someone on the list.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Shillelagh’s urban area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Shillelagh as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Shillelagh
Close by, the fullest list is Gorey’s, at 13 names.
Questions about famous people from Shillelagh
Who counts as from Shillelagh?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Shillelagh’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)
- Michael W. D'Arcy: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick Keppel: Frederick Keppel, photographer unknown., 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).