1948 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship final

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1948 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Final
Event All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 1948
Date29 September 1946
Venue Croke Park, Dublin
Referee James Byrne (Waterford)
Attendance1,500
1947
1949

The 1948 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final was the seventeenth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1948 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, an inter-county camogie tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

The final, unusually, was played on a Saturday. An inexperienced Down side, playing their first final, lost by twenty-three points. Dublin's Kathleen Cody, Sophie Brack and J. Cosgrave all scored hat-tricks. [1] [ unreliable source? ]

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