1891 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1891 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Dublin (1st win)
Provincial Champions
Munster Cork
Leinster Dublin
Ulster Cavan
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.[1][2]

Representative clubs

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

County Club
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

Cork 2-5 – 0-2 Kerry

Cork 1-5 - 0-4 Waterford

Leinster Championship

Dublin w/o - scr. Kildare

Ulster Championship

Cavan 3-9 - 0-0 Antrim
Referee: James Lennon

Cavan 0-7 - 0-1 Armagh
Referee: Connolly

Game was replayed due to an objection.


Cavan 1-11 - 0-0 Armagh

All-Ireland Championship

Dublin 3-7 - 0-3 Cavan
Referee: Patrick Larkin (Galway)

Dublin 2-1 - 1-1 Cork
Referee: T.J. Whelan (Laois)

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Dublin win both their first Leinster and All Ireland titles.
  • Cavan win their first Ulster title.
  • Dublin played the All-Ireland Semi-Final and the All-Ireland Final on the same day. The 1891 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final between Kerry and Wexford was played between the two football matches. [4]

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. "The Freemans Journal", 29 February 1892, p. 7
  4. "The Irish Press", 10 February 1965, p. 12
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