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 Championship

There were no entrants from Connacht.

Munster Championship

Limerick 0-0 – 0-0 Waterford

Cork 2-5 – 0-2 Kerry

Cork 1-5 - 0-4 Waterford

Leinster Championship

Dublin 4-11 - 0-0 Wicklow

Kildare 0-5 - 0-0 Laois
Clonturk
Referee: A Murphy (Dublin)

Dublin w/o - scr. Kildare

Ulster Championship

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

All-Ireland Championship

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

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. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "The Freemans Journal", 29 February 1892, p. 7
  4. "The Irish Press", 10 February 1965, p. 12