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2 unusual facts about Athy


Camille Jenatzy

Jenatzy won the 1903 Gordon Bennet Cup in Athy, Ireland, at the wheel of a Mercedes.

Jack Lukeman

A native of Athy Co. Kildare, Jack Lukeman first came to prominence in the summer of 1995 when he and The Black Romantics took up a residencey at The Da Club (Dublin Arts Club) in Dublin.


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Francis Cosby

He helped to massacre, although the degree of his responsibility is not clear, many of the O'Mores at Mullagh, near Athy, who had been summoned to the fortress on avowedly peaceful business.

Frederick Falkiner

Sir Frederick Falkiner, 1st Baronet (1768–1824), Irish MP for Athy and Dublin County, British MP for Dublin County and Carlow Borough

Rita Kelly

Rita Kelly (born 1953) is an Irish poet from Ballinasloe in eastern County Galway who now lives in an old lock house along the river Barrow between Athy and Carlow.

Suncroft GAA

Quinn starred on Suncroft teams that never reached a county final but beat Athy in 1962 and Éire Óg in 1963 in championship matches.


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