1897 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Football championship April 2022 1897 Dublin 4th P. J. Walsh Cork Dublin Cork 1896 1898 The 1897 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 11th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition. The Munster final saw Cork ending Limerick's All Ireland title. The Leinster championship was notable for seeing Wicklow football's only Leinster SFC final appearance.https://www.hoganstand.com/Wicklow/Article/Index/48980 O'Byrne, Pat - HoganStand www.hoganstand.com Dublin football were the Leinster and All-Ireland winners.http://gaaweb.sitesuite.cn/page/football_results_1887_1910.html Football Results 1887 – 1910 | the Official Website of the GAA 2011-07-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20120321030258/http://gaaweb.sitesuite.cn/page/football_results_1887_1910.html 2012-03-21 dead All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Results 1887-2010 http://www.hoganstand.com/general/champs/honoursf.aspx 2011-07-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20110716104405/http://hoganstand.com/general/champs/honoursf.aspx 2011-07-16 dead Leinster Senior Football Champions http://leinster.gaa.ie/archive/pdf/P130_134_Senior_FootChamp.pdf 2011-09-28 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110928061017/http://leinster.gaa.ie/archive/pdf/P130_134_Senior_FootChamp.pdf 2011-09-28 Results Leinster 1898Preliminary Round Dublin 0–14 – 0–1 Kilkenny Carlow 1898Preliminary Round Westmeath Lost – Won Wicklow 26 June 1898Preliminary Round Kildare 2–17 – 0–9 Laois Jones's Road, Dublin 17 July 1898Quarter-Final Kildare 0–2 – 2–5 Dublin Jones's Road, Dublin 24 July 1898Quarter-Final Offaly Lost – Won Wicklow Jones's Road, Dublin 1898Quarter-Final Meath 0–3 – 1–7 Louth Balbriggan 1898Quarter-Final Wexford 2–24 – 0–5 Carlow Jones's Road, Dublin 1898Semi-Final Wexford 1–7 – 1–5 Dublin Jones's Road, Dublin 1898Semi-Final Replay Wexford 0–9 – 0–10 Dublin Jones's Road, Dublin 1898Semi-Final Wicklow 1–6 – 1–4 Louth Jones's Road, Dublin 30 October 1898Final Dublin scr. – w/o Wicklow Jones's Road, Dublin Dublin did not take the field, assuming that heavy rain and a waterlogged pitch meant the game would be cancelled.Corrigan, E. (2010). The History of Gaelic Football: The Definitive History of Gaelic Football from 1873. Ireland: Gill Books.https://www.independent.ie/county/dublin/how-low-can-you-go/a/147223706.html How 'low can you go? 5 July 2013 Irish Independent Wicklow were initially declared Leinster champions by default, but this was overturned.https://wicklowgaaonline.com/index.php/history/ History | Wicklow GAA wicklowgaaonline.com 18 December 1898Final Refixture Dublin 1–9 – 0–3 Wicklow Jones's Road, Dublin Munster 1898Quarter-Final Tipperary Win – Lost Kerry Mallow 1 May 1898Quarter-Final Cork 1–5 – 1–4 Waterford Dungarvan 1 August 1898Semi-Final Cork 0–5 – 1–0 Tipperary Cork Park J. Wall (Waterford) 1898Semi-Final Clare 1–1 – 0–9 Limerick Limerick 25 September 1898Final Cork 0–5 – 0–3 Limerick Tipperary Final 1897 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final 5 February 1899 Dublin 2–6 – 0–2 Cork Jones's Road, Dublin 4,000 Spencer Lyons (Limerick) Statistics Dublin begin their first All-Ireland SFC triple and the first county ever to do it. Wicklow's only appearance in a Leinster SFC final. Roll of Honour Dublin – 4 (1897) Tipperary – 2 (1895) Limerick – 2 (1896) Cork – 1 (1890) Wexford – 1 (1893) References All-Ireland Senior Football Championship