1891 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

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1891 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Dublin (1st win)
Captain John Kennedy
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team Cork
Provincial Champions
Munster Cork
Leinster Dublin
Ulster Cavan
Connacht Not played
Championship statistics
← 1890
1892 →

The 1891 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the fifth staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Dublin were the champions ending Cork's spell. [1] [2]

Contents

Representative clubs

From 1887 until 1891 the club champions represented the whole county.

CountyClub
Armagh
Cavan Cavan Slashers
Cork Clondrohid
Dublin Young Irelands
Kerry Ballymacelligott
Kildare Mountrice Blunts
Waterford

Results

Connacht

There were no entrants from Connacht.

Munster

Limerick 0–0 – 0–0 Waterford
Cork 2–5 – 0–2 Kerry
Cork 1–5 – 0–4 Waterford

Leinster

Dublin 4–11 – 0–0 Wicklow
Clonturk
Kildare 0–5 – 0–0 Laois
Clonturk
Referee: A Murphy (Dublin)
Dublin w/o – scr. Kildare
Clonturk

Ulster

Cavan 3–9 – 0–0 Antrim
Armagh
Referee: James Lennon
Cavan 0–7 – 0–1 Armagh
Bailieboro
Referee: Connolly

Game was replayed due to an objection.

Cavan 1–11 – 0–0 Armagh
Smithborough

Semi-final

Dublin 3–7 – 0–3 Cavan
Clonturk Park, Drumcondra [3]
Referee: Patrick Larkin (Galway)

Final

Dublin 2–1 – 1–1 Cork
Clonturk Park, Drumcondra
Referee: T.J. Whelan (Laois)

Statistics

Roll of Honour

References

  1. ↑ "Football Results 1887 – 1910 | the Official Website of the GAA". Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
  2. ↑ "All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Results 1887-2010". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
  3. ↑ "The Freemans Journal", 29 February 1892, p. 7
  4. ↑ "The Irish Press", 10 February 1965, p. 12
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