GAA Football All-Ireland Championship 1947

Enda Mulcahy

4 years ago

All-Ireland Semi-Finals and Final

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals		Croke Park
03.08.47	Cavan	2-4	Roscommon	0-0
10.08.47	Kerry	1-11	Meath	0-5
	Final		Polo Grounds, NY
14.09.47	Cavan	2-11	Kerry	2-7

GAA Football All-Ireland Championship 1947 [Reference: 2]

Report

The 1947 All-Ireland Football Final was held in New York, the only All-Ireland Final ever held outside of Ireland.

Cavan have the honour of defeating Kerry in the Final by 17 Pts to 13.

References

[1] Wikipedia (2020) Gaelic_Athletic_Association [Internet] Available from: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ga/a/ad/Gaelic_Athletic_Association.png [Accessed 11 November 2020]

Bibliography

[2] GAA (2017) – “The Complete Handbook of Gaelic Games – Full GAA Records from 1887 to 2017 Inclusive DBA Publications Limted, Dublin. Pg. 150

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Edmund Corrigan, Decy Maher, Anton Pippo O’Grady & Michael O’Callaghan

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Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

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Last Updated: 11 November 2020

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