1955 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1955 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team Kerry (18th win)
Provincial Champions
Munster Kerry
Leinster Dublin
Ulster Cavan
Connacht Mayo
Championship statistics
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The 1955 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 69th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition.

Kerry were the winners.[1][2][3]

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Galway 0-3 – 1-6 Roscommon
Mayo 3-11 – 0-9 Leitrim
Attendance: 3,431
Sligo 0-4 – 1-8 Roscommon
Attendance: 6,400
Mayo 3-11 – 1-3 Roscommon
Attendance: 18,500
Referee: P. Carrol (Offaly)

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Westmeath 0-7 – 0-6 Wicklow
Louth 1-3 – 0-5 Longford
Kildare 1-6 – 1-5 Wexford
Dublin 3-9 – 0-6 Carlow
Meath 3-4 – 2-7 Kildare
Offaly 5-12 – 0-7 Louth
Attendance: 16075
Referee: W Goodison
Meath 1-9 – 0-11 Kildare
Meath 0-10 – 1-6 Westmeath
Dublin 2-3 – 1-9 Offaly
Attendance: 20680
Referee: W Goodison
Dublin 5-12 – 0-7 Meath
Attendance: 48,000

Munster Senior Football Championship

Clare 1-10 – 0-7 Tipperary
Referee: J. Collins (L)
Cork 2-8 – 0-7 Tipperary
Referee: J. Goode (W)
Kerry 3-7 – 0-4 Waterford
Kerry 0-14 – 2-6 Cork

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Derry 0-13 – 1-5 Tyrone
Attendance: 4,500
Donegal 3-8 – 2-8 Monaghan
Attendance: 4,500
Armagh 1-8 – 0-5 Down
Cavan 1-10 – 2-1 Antrim
Attendance: 6,120
Armagh 0-2 – 3-4 Derry
Cavan 2-5 – 1-6 Donegal
Attendance: 10,124
Cavan 0-11 – 0-8 Derry
Attendance: 24,800

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Kerry 2-10 – 1-13 Cavan
Attendance: 41,278
Dublin 0-7 – 1-4 Mayo
Attendance: 60,595
Referee: Peter McDermott (Meath)
Kerry 4-7 – 0-5 Cavan
Attendance: 71,504
Dublin 1-8 – 1-7 Mayo
Attendance: 71,504
Kerry 0-12 – 1-6 Dublin
Attendance: 87,102

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Markievicz Park, Sligo named after a women of the 1916 rising called Constance Markievicz.
  • Both of the All Ireland semi-finals end in a draw and go to a replay.
  • Dublin win their first Leinster title since 1942 and reach their first All Ireland final since that same year but are narrowly beaten by Kerry.

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 2011-07-23.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
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