1897 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

none April 2022 1897 Limerick Kilkenny Limerick 1st Denis Grimes Kilkenny Jackie Walsh 1896 1898 The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1897 was the 11th series of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Ireland's premier hurling knock-out competition. Limerick won the championship, beating Kilkenny 3–4 to 2–4 in the final.http://gaaweb.sitesuite.cn/page/roll_of_honour2.html All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Roll of Honour The GAA website 25 July 2011 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110905085701/http://gaaweb.sitesuite.cn/page/roll_of_honour2.html 5 September 2011 Format All-Ireland Championship Semi-final: (1 match) This is a lone game which sees the winners of the Leinster championship play Galway who receive a bye to this stage. One team is eliminated while the winning team advances to the final. Final: (1 match) The winners of the lone semi-final play the winners of the Munster championship. Provincial championships Leinster Senior Hurling Championship Quarter-final Offaly 2–3 – 1–4 Laois Jones's Road, Dublin Semi-final Kilkenny 2–6 – 2–6 Dublin Semi-final replay Kilkenny 6–13 – 1–4 Dublin 16 October 1898Final Kilkenny w/o – scr. Wexford Jones's Road, Dublin Munster Senior Hurling Championship Semi-final Limerick 2–5 – 2–3 Clare Limerick Semi-final Cork 4–16 – 0–2 Tipperary Cork Final Limerick 4–9 – 1–6 Cork Tipperary All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship All-Ireland semi-finals 30 October 1898Semi-final Kilkenny 3–4 – 0–4 Galway Jones's Road, Dublin All-Ireland Final Source:Potter Matthew 2023-07-20 Limerick's historic links with the GAA https://www.limerick.ie/council/newsroom/news/limericks-historic-links-with-the-gaa 2025-02-27 Limerick City and County Council 20 November 1898Final Limerick 3–4 – 2–4 Kilkenny Jones's Road, Dublin c.5,000 J. J. McCabe (Dublin) Championship statistics Miscellaneous Limerick win the Munster championship for the first time. It was their fourth appearance in the final. An All-Ireland semi-final is played for the first time since the 1887 championship. That game is the first ever championship meeting of Galway and Kilkenny. The All-Ireland final is the first championship meeting of Kilkenny and Limerick. The win gives Limerick their very first championship. Limerick become fifth team to win the All-Ireland hurling title. They become the fourth team to have won an All-Ireland title in both hurling and Gaelic football. Roll of Honour Cork – 4 (1894) Tipperary – 3 (1896) Limerick – 1 (1897) Dublin – 1 (1889) Kerry – 1 (1891) References Sources Corry, Eoghan, The GAA Book of Lists (Hodder Headline Ireland, 2005). Donegan, Des, The Complete Handbook of Gaelic Games (DBA Publications Limited, 2005). 1897 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Category:1897 in Irish sport