1887 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

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1887 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final - Wikipedia

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1887 All-Ireland
Senior Football Championship final

Limerick, champions

Event

1887 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Limerick	Louth

1–4 (7)	0–3 (3)

Date

29 April 1888

Venue

Beech Hill, Donnybrook, Dublin

Referee

John Cullinane (Tipperary)

1889 →

The 1887 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the first All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1887 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland. Limerick were the winners.^[1] It was the first of two All-Ireland football titles for Limerick - the other coming in 1896.^[2]

In 2005, a gold medal won by the final's man-of-the-match Malachi O'Brien fetched €26,500 (three times its guide price) at London auction house Sotheby's. It was believed to be the oldest All-Ireland football medal in existence. The Limerick Leader purchased the medal and said it intended to display it in Limerick.^[3]

In June 2023 another medal, awarded to Limerick midfielder Jeremiah Kennedy, was sold at a Dublin auction for €32,000. The victorious Limerick team did not receive their medals until 1910.^[4]

Match

Summary

The 21 per side final was held at O'Byrne's field at Beech Hill, Donnybrook, which was then the home of Dublin club Benburbs.^[5]^[6]

Louth was represented by county champions Dundalk Young Irelands, with the Limerick side composed of members of Limerick Commercials, who had won the Limerick county championship.

Playing with the aid of the wind in the first half, Louth led by two points at the interval. Jim Keating was the first player to register a score in an All-Ireland football final. In the second half, the first ever goal in a final was scored by William Spain.^[7] The Treaty men went on to win by four points. Gate receipts for the match came to £300.

Details

29 April 1888

Limerick	1–4 – 0–3	Louth
(HT: 0–1 – 0–3)

Limerick

Louth


	1	Denis Corbett (gk) (c)
	2	Tim Fitzgibbon
	3	William Gunning
	4	Richard Breen
	5	John Hyland
	6	Thomas McNamara
	7	William Spain
	8	Pat Corbett
	9	Michael Slattery
	10	Jeremiah Kennedy
	11	Michael Casey
	12	James Mulqueen
	13	Malachi O'Brien
	14	Patrick Kelly
	15	Tim Kennedy
	16	Philip Keating
	17	William Cleary
	18	Robert Normoyle
	19	Pat Reeves
	20	Thomas Keating
	21	Tom McMahon


	1	Edward Feeley (gk)
	2	Pat Clarke
	3	John Dowdall
	4	Henry Fagan
	5	Jack Connor
	6	John McCrave
	7	Pat McGuinness
	8	Tom Murphy
	9	Edward Murphy
	10	Tom O'Rourke
	11	William Whately
	12	Arthur O'Hagan
	13	Michael Carroll (c)
	14	Pat Morgan
	15	Edward Goodman
	16	John Maguire
	17	Jim Keating
	18	James Campbell
	19	Pat McGinn
	20	Peter Jackson
	21	Tom Lavery
Substitute:
	22	Sam Keating

References

^ "'All Ireland Glory' – new book is a must for all GAA fans". Western People. 14 December 2005.
^ "Family ready to auction off rare first All-Ireland medal". Irish Independent. 4 March 2005.
^ "1887 All-Ireland medal fetches €26,500 at auction". BreakingNews.ie. 16 November 2005. Archived from the original on 8 March 2016.
^ "Limerick All-Ireland medal sells at auction". Limerick Post. 9 June 2023.
^ "History-1972". Kilmacud Crokes. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
^ Mulligan, Fr.John (1984). The GAA in Louth - An Historical Record.
^ "Spain, William". Dictionary of Irish Biography. October 2009.

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