Pleberstown, Powerstown, Rosbercon Rural, Scotsborough, Stonyford, The Rower, Thomastown, Tullaghanbrogue, Tullaherin, Tullahought, Ullard and Woolengrange. In popular culture Neil Jordan's film Breakfast on Pluto with Cillian Murphy and Liam Neeson was filmed in Callan during August–September 2005. During the two weeks of filming in Callan, the main streets of the town were transformed for use in the film. Callan was the set and stage for The Big Chapel X, a large-scale theatre production and community engagement project that drew on the history of the Callan schism, in August 2019, created by Asylum Productions in partnership with the Kilkenny Arts Festival supported by the Abbey Theatre and the Arts Council. Callan boasts many arts organisations including KCAT Arts Centre, Workhouse Union, Monkeyshine, Trasna Productions and Fennelly's Cafe. People Callan is the birthplace of a number of famous people, including: Edmund or Edward Butler (died 1584), a member of the Butler dynasty, Attorney General for Ireland and a justice of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland), lived in Callan for most of his life. Gerald Comerford (died 1604), the principal landowner in Callan in the late sixteenth century and also an influential politician and judge; his tomb can still be seen at St Mary's Church Patrick Cudahy (1849–1919), American industrialist and philanthropist James Hoban who designed The White House and Leinster House among others was born in Desart, near Callan. Linda Hogan (born 1964), Professor of Ecumenics at Trinity College Dublin, and its former vice-provost Edmund Ignatius Rice, founder of the Irish Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers Thomas Kilroy Irish playwright and novelist. Author of the historical novel The Big Chapel. John Locke, Ireland's Poet in Exile, was born here in 1847. Seamus Moore (singer), Irish singer/songwriter Thomas Nash (Newfoundland) Irish fisherman, settled in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Founder of Branch, Newfoundland and Labrador Tony O'Malley, Irish painter Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin (1780–1838), was a schoolmaster and linen-draper in the town, and kept a diary in the Irish language between 1827 and 1835. This recorded in great detail the life of the town. Amhlaoibh's diary is considered one of the most detailed contemporary accounts of life in Ireland at the time. See also List of abbeys and priories in Ireland (County Kilkenny) List of towns and villages in Ireland Market Houses in Ireland References Further reading Towns and villages in County Kilkenny Civil parishes of County Kilkenny Census towns in County Kilkenny