1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Tipperary (1st win)
Provincial Champions
Munster Tipperary
Leinster Queen's County
Championship statistics
1888
1890

The 1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the third staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Tipperary were the champions.

Format

Only two provincial championship were played: Leinster and Munster. The winners met in the All-Ireland final.

Representative clubs

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

County Club
Cork Midleton
Kerry Laune Rangers
Louth Newtown Blues
Queen's County (Laois) Maryborough
Tipperary Bohercrowe

Results

Leinster

Louth 2–7 – 0–6 Dublin
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: PR Cleary

Louth w/o – scr. Kilkenny

Wicklow w/o - scr. Queen's County

Louth 1–7 – 1–4 Wicklow

The Wicklow-Queen's County game was later ordered to be played again, and so the final had to be played again as well.


Queen's County 0–9 – 0–4 Wicklow
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: P Brown

Queen's County 0-3 – 0–2 Louth
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: JJ Reilly

Munster

Tipperary w/o – scr. Clare

Tipperary W - L Waterford

Cork 0-2 – 0-1 Kerry

Tipperary 1-2 – 0-3 Cork
Referee: E Moynihan

All-Ireland Final

Tipperary 3-6 - 0-0 Queen's County
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: M. O'Driscoll

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Tipperary win the first All Ireland title.

References

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