1948 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1948 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Cavan (4th win)
Captain John Joe O’Reilly
Provincial Champions
Munster Kerry
Leinster Louth
Ulster Cavan
Connacht Mayo
Championship statistics
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1949 →

The 1948 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 62nd staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition.

Fermanagh play their last Ulster championship game until 1960.

Cavan won their second title in a row.[1][2][3]

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Mayo 4-9 – 1-2 Leitrim
Galway 3-4 – 1-4 Roscommon
Mayo 4-2 – 1-5 Sligo
Mayo 2-4 – 1-7 Galway
St. Coman's Park, Roscommon
Referee: Simon Duignan (Cavan)
Mayo 2-10 – 2-7
A.E.T.		 Galway
St. Coman's Park, Roscommon
Referee: P.J. Sheehy (Longford)

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Carlow 3-11 – 1-5 Wicklow
Louth 2-14 – 1-2 Longford
Offaly 5-5 – 1-8 Kildare
Referee: W Delaney
Meath 0-14 – 1-6 Westmeath
Carlow 4-4 – 1-7 Laois
Offaly 3-8 – 4-6 Wexford
Referee: W Delaney
Louth 1-8 – 0-6 Dublin
Wexford 3-9 – 4-5 Carlow
Meath 2-6 – 2-5 Louth
Louth 2-10 – 2-5 Wexford

Munster Senior Football Championship

Clare 4-10 – 0-2 Limerick
Tipperary 3-13 – 1-7 Waterford
Referee: S. O'Boyle (Tipperary)
Kerry 6-6 – 1-8 Clare
Cork 0-12 – 1-8 Tipperary
Referee: P. Ryan (W)
Kerry 2-9 – 2-6 Cork

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Down 5-7 – 2-3 Armagh
Antrim 1-3 – 0-1
Unfinished		 Donegal
Derry 2-6 – 2-9 Monaghan
Tyrone 5-8 – 0-4 Fermanagh
Cavan 2-9 – 2-4 Down
Antrim 4-5 – 1-4 Donegal
Antrim 0-12 – 1-3 Tyrone
Cavan 1-9 – 0-7 Monaghan
Cavan 2-12 – 2-4 Antrim

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Cavan 1-14 – 4-2 Louth
Attendance: 51,117
Mayo 0-13 – 0-3 Kerry
Attendance: 51,305
Cavan 4-5 – 4-4 Mayo
Attendance: 74,645
Referee: M.J. Flatherty (Offaly)

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Fermanagh withdraw from Ulster championship until 1960.
  • The All Ireland semi-final between Cavan and Louth was their first championship meeting.
  • Cavan becomes the first county from Ulster to be All Ireland Champions for 2 in a row.

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2011-07-22.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-07-22.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
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