1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Championship details
Dates	1905 – 16 June 1907
All-Ireland Champions
Winning team	Kildare (1st win)
Captain
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team	Kerry
Captain	Maurice McCarthy
Provincial Champions
Munster	Kerry
Leinster	Kildare
Ulster	Cavan
Connacht	Roscommon
Championship statistics
	← 1904 1906 →

The 1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 19th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. Kildare were the winners.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Format[]

The four provincial championships were played as usual; the four champions joined London in the All-Ireland Championship.

Results[]

Connacht Senior Football Championship[]

8 April 1906
Semi-Final

Roscommon	0-8 – 0-3	Galway

Claremorris

29 April 1906
Semi-Final

Mayo	1-7 – 0-2	Sligo

Claremorris

27 May 1906
Final

Roscommon	0-7 – 0-5	Mayo

Tuam

Leinster Senior Football Championship[]

1906
Quarter-Final

Kilkenny	2-7 – 1-4	Laois

Athy

1906
Quarter-Final

Louth	1-8 – 1-1	Wexford

Jones' Road, Dublin

19 August 1906
Quarter-Final

Dublin	0-2 – 0-6	Kildare

Athy

2 September 1906
Quarter-Final

Offaly	0-8 – 0-1	Meath

Jones' Road, Dublin

Referee: Joe Kenny

14 October 1906
Semi-Final

Kildare	1-6 – 0-6	Offaly

Geashill

1906
Semi-Final

Louth	0-5 – 0-5	Kilkenny

Jones' Road, Dublin

1906
Semi-Final 1st Replay

Louth	1-1 – 0-6	Kilkenny

Jones' Road, Dublin

An objection was made and a replay ordered.

1906
Semi-Final 2nd Replay

Louth	0-6 – 0-5	Kilkenny

Jones' Road, Dublin

6 January 1907
Final

Kildare	0-12 – 1-7	Louth

Jones' Road, Dublin

Munster Senior Football Championship[]

1905
Preliminary Round

Waterford	2-10 – 0-6	Clare

Tipperary

27 August 1905
Quarter-Final

Kerry	5-8 – 1-4	Tipperary

Cork Athletic Grounds

Referee: W. Curtin (Cork)

13 May 1906
Quarter-Final

Cork	3-8 – 0-5	Waterford

Dungarvan

20 January 1907
Semi-Final

Kerry	1-7 – 0-5	Cork

Cork Athletic Grounds

7 April 1907
Final^[4]

Kerry	2-10 – 1-6	Limerick

Tralee

Ulster Senior Football Championship[]

1905
Final

Cavan	0-7 – 0-3	Monaghan

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship[]

As the Leinster Championship was not finished by the time London was supposed to play their quarter-final, Dublin was nominated to face them. When Kildare won the Leinster Championship, they were deemed to have defeated London.

5 August 1906
Quarter-Final

Dublin	1-9 – 1-4	London

Jones' Road, Dublin

2 September 1906
Semi-Final

Kerry	2-10 – 1-3	Roscommon

Limerick

30 September 1906
Semi-Final

Kildare	4-15 – 1-6	Cavan

Jones' Road, Dublin

16 June 1907
Final

Kildare	1-7 – 0-5	Kerry
Ned Kennedy 0-3, Jack Connolly 1-0, Bill "Steel" Losty 0-2, Frank "Joyce" Conlan 0-1

Thurles

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: M.F. Crowe (Dublin)

Championship statistics[]

Miscellaneous[]

Roscommon are Connacht champions for the first time.
Kildare are All Ireland champions for the first time.

References[]

^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2011-07-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-07-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). leinster.gaa.ie. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ Kerryman; 13/04/1907

[1] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2011-07-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[2] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-07-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[3] "Archived copy" (PDF). leinster.gaa.ie. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[4] Kerryman; 13/04/1907

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