1890 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1890 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Cork (1st win)
Captain Jim Power
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team Wexford
Provincial Champions
Munster Cork
Leinster Wexford
Ulster Armagh
Championship statistics
← 1889
1891 →

The 1890 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the fourth staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Cork were the champions.[1][2]

Representative clubs

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

County Club
Armagh Armagh Harps
Cork Midleton
Dublin Isle of the Sea
Galway
Kerry Laune Rangers GAA
Limerick St. Patricks [3]
Tyrone
Wexford Blues & Whites

Results

Connacht Championship

Galway were the only entrants, so they received a bye to the All-Ireland semi-final.

Munster Championship

Kerry 0-9 - 0-0 Limerick
Cork 0-6 - 0-0 Waterford
Kerry w/o - scr. Clare
Cork 0-0 - 0-0
Unfinished. The ball burst after 57mins of play [5]		 Kerry
Cork 1-4 - 0-1 Kerry

Leinster Championship

Laois 0-1- 2-8 Dublin
Referee: T Lee (Dublin)
Wexford 1-3 - 1-2 Dublin

Ulster Championship

Armagh 3-7 - 0-1 Antrim
Referee: James Weldon
Armagh 2-8 - 1-2 Tyrone
Blaris, Lisburn

All-Ireland Championship

Cork 1-15 - 0-0 Armagh
Clonturk
Wexford w/o - scr. Galway
Cork 2-4 - 0-1 Wexford
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: J.J. Kenny (Dublin)

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Cork won both the Munster and All Ireland titles for the first time.

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2011-07-03.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-07-03.
  3. ↑ http://history.launerangers.ie/?p=1056
  4. ↑ http://history.launerangers.ie/?p=1056
  5. ↑ Irish Examiner 1841-current, Monday, September 29, 1890; Page: 3
  6. ↑ "The Munster Championships", The Kerry Sentinel, 1 October 1890, p.3
  7. ↑ "The Football Championship of Munster", The Kerry Sentinel, 22 October 1890, p.3
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