1891 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

The 1891 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the fifth staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Dublin were the champions ending Cork's spell.[1][2]

1891 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamDublin (1st win)
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamCork
Provincial Champions
MunsterCork
LeinsterDublin
UlsterCavan
ConnachtNot played
Championship statistics
1890
1892

Representative clubs edit

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 edit

Connacht Championship edit

There were no entrants from Connacht.

Munster Championship edit

Limerick0-0 – 0-0Waterford

Cork2-5 – 0-2Kerry

Cork1-5 - 0-4Waterford

Leinster Championship edit

Dublin4-11 - 0-0Wicklow

Kildare0-5 - 0-0Laois
Referee: A Murphy (Dublin)

Dublinw/o - scr.Kildare

Ulster Championship edit

Cavan3-9 - 0-0Antrim
Referee: James Lennon

Cavan0-7 - 0-1Armagh
Referee: Connolly

Game was replayed due to an objection.


Cavan1-11 - 0-0Armagh

All-Ireland Championship edit

Dublin3-7 - 0-3Cavan
Referee: Patrick Larkin (Galway)

Dublin2-1 - 1-1Cork
Referee: T.J. Whelan (Laois)

Championship statistics edit

Miscellaneous edit

  • 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]

Roll of Honour edit

  • Limerick - 1 (1887)
  • Tipperary - 1 (1889)
  • Cork - 1 (1890)
  • Dublin - 1 (1891)


References edit

  1. ^ "Football Results 1887 - 1910 | the Official Website of the GAA". Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "The Freemans Journal", 29 February 1892, p. 7
  4. ^ "The Irish Press", 10 February 1965, p. 12