1888 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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1888 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Not played ( win)
Provincial Champions
Munster Tipperary
Leinster Kilkenny
Ulster Monaghan
Connacht Not played
Championship statistics
1887
1889

The 1888 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was unfinished owing to the American Invasion Tour, an unsuccessful attempt to raise funds for a revival of the Tailteann Games. [1]

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The 1888 provincial championships had been completed (Tipperary, Kilkenny and Monaghan winning them; no Connacht teams entered) but after the Invasion tour returned, the All-Ireland semi-final and final were not played. [2]

Results

Leinster

Dublin 1–6 – 0–1 Kildare
Donnybrook
Referee: JJ Reilly

Kilkenny 1–3 – 0–0 Queen's County
Maryborough
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: GF Moore

Wicklow 0–2 – 0–1 Wexford
Donnybrook
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: JJ Reilly

Wicklow used illegal players, and the game was stopped by a pitch invasion with ten minutes to go, so a replay was ordered.


Wexford 1–3 – 0–2 Wicklow
Clonskeagh
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: JP Cox

Louth 2–4 – 0–0 Meath
Bryanstown
Referee: JJ O'Reilly

Kilkenny 2-1 – 0–3 Louth
Clonskeagh
Referee: JJ Cullen

Wexford 0–4 – 0–3 Dublin
Clonskeagh
Referee: T Harrington

Kilkenny 1–4 – 0–2 Wexford
New Ross

Munster

Tipperary 0-2 – 0-2 Cork
Buttevant
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: T.O'Riordan

Clare 1-3 – 1-0 Limerick
Birdhill
Referee: J Callinan

Limerick were awarded the game due to Clare playing illegal players.


Tipperary 0-3 – 0-1 Waterford
Clonmel
Referee: T Harrington

Tipperary w/o – scr. Limerick

Ulster

Monaghan 0–2 – 0–2 Cavan

Neither team could field the full 21 players, so 15-a-side was agreed.


Monaghan 0–3 – 0–0 Cavan
Bryanstown, County Meath

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

Sligo and Mayo played a draw in the Connacht final. There is no record of a replay.

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References

  1. "The 1888 American Invasion Tour". Archived from the original on 2 August 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2011.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)