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[]

1891
Semi-Final

Limerick	0-0 – 0-0	Waterford

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20 September 1891
Semi-Final

Cork	2-5 – 0-2	Kerry

Killarney

1 November 1891
Final

Cork	1-5 - 0-4	Waterford

Youghal

Leinster Championship[]

1891
Semi Final

Dublin	4-11 - 0-0	Wicklow

Clonturk

8 November 1891
Semi Final

Kildare	0-5 - 0-0	Laois

Clonturk

Referee: A Murphy (Dublin)

8 November 1891
Final

Dublin	w/o - scr.	Kildare

Clonturk

Ulster Championship[]

18 October 1891
Semi-final

Cavan	3-9 - 0-0	Antrim

Armagh

Referee: James Lennon

1 November 1891
Final

Cavan	0-7 - 0-1	Armagh

Bailieboro

Referee: Connolly

Game was replayed due to an objection.

6 December 1891
Final Replay

Cavan	1-11 - 0-0	Armagh

Smithborough

All-Ireland Championship[]

28 February 1892
Semi-Final

Dublin	3-7 - 0-3	Cavan

Clonturk Park, Drumcondra^[3]

Referee: Patrick Larkin (Galway)

28 February 1892

Dublin	2-1 - 1-1	Cork

Clonturk Park, Drumcondra

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[]

^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2011-07-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-07-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "The Freemans Journal", 29 February 1892, p. 7
^ "The Irish Press", 10 February 1965, p. 12

[1] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2011-07-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[2] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-07-03.{{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

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