Complex sentence: Hanlon grew up in the village of Goresbridge on the banks of the River Barrow in County Kilkenny, Ireland, the only daughter of eight children born to Margaret and Thomas Hanlon.
Split into simpler sentences: Hanlon grew up in the village of Goresbridge on the banks of the River Barrow in County Kilkenny, Ireland. She was the only daughter of eight children born to Margaret and Thomas Hanlon.