1955 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

The 1955 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 69th staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition.

1955 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
All-Ireland Champions
Winning teamKerry (18th win)
CaptainJohn Dowling
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing teamDublin
CaptainDenis Mahony
Provincial Champions
MunsterKerry
LeinsterDublin
UlsterCavan
ConnachtMayo
Championship statistics
1954
1956

Meath were the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Dublin in the Leinster final.

Kerry were the winners.[1][2][3]

Note Quarter Finals were back in the Munster championship but Clare only skipped 1 year. Limerick, not part of the championship between 1953 and 1964, were approved to host Waterford in the Quarter Final but did not play them.

Results

Connacht Senior Football Championship

Galway0-3 – 1-6Roscommon

Mayo3-11 – 0-9Leitrim
P Solan (0-2), D O’Neill (0-3), S O’Donnell (0-1); M Flanagan (0-1), T Langan (1-0), J Curran (2-4, two points from frees).
Attendance: 3,431

Sligo0-4 – 1-8Roscommon
Attendance: 6,400

Mayo3-11 – 1-3Roscommon
J Nallen (0-1), T Langan (2-1), S O’Donnell (1-1), D O’Neill (0-2), J Curran (0-6, four frees).
Attendance: 18,500
Referee: P. Carrol (Offaly)

Leinster Senior Football Championship

Westmeath0-7 – 0-6Wicklow

Louth1-3 – 0-5Longford

Kildare1-6 – 1-5Wexford
P.Moore 1-0, S.Harrison, D.Dalton 0-2, J.Gough, L.McCormack 0-1.

Dublin3-9 – 0-6Carlow

Meath3-4 – 2-7Kildare
J.Daly, P.Mooney 1-0, S.Harrison (2f), T.McCarthy 0-2, D.Dalton, S.Moore, M.Doyle 0-1.

Offaly5-12 – 0-7Louth
Attendance: 16075
Referee: W Goodison (Wexford)

Meath1-9 – 0-11Kildare
S.Harrison 0-6, P.Mooney 0-3, D.Dalton 0-2.

Meath0-10 – 1-6Westmeath

Dublin2-3 – 1-9Offaly
Attendance: 20680
Referee: W Goodison (Wexford)

Dublin5-12 - 0-7Meath
Kevin Heffernan 2-0, Ollie Freaney 0-5 (0-3f), Sean O'Boyle 1-3, Cathal O'Leary 1-2, Des Ferguson 1-1, Padraig Haughey 0-1 Tom Duff 0-3 (0-2f), Brian Smyth 0-2, Frankie Byrne (0-1f) and Tom O'Brien 0-1 each
Attendance: 48,860
Referee: Bill Goodison (Wexford)

Munster Senior Football Championship

Clare back in the Munster championship after 1 year break football again but even Limerick didn't take part between 1953 & 1964 there were approved to host Waterford in the Quarter Final but didn't take part.

Waterfordw/o - scr.Limerick

Clare1-10 – 0-7Tipperary
Referee: J. Collins (L)

Cork2-8 – 0-7Tipperary
D. Kellaher (0-4), E. Ryan (0-1), J. Creedon (2-2) & D. O’Donovan (0-1).
Referee: J. Goode (W)

Kerry3-7 – 0-4Waterford
B. Buckley (1-0), T. Lyne (0-3), G. O'Sullivan (0-1), M. Murphy (0-1) & T. Costelloe (2-2).

Kerry0-14 – 2-6Cork
J. Dowling (0-1), P. Sheehy (0-5), T.Lyne (0-4), G. O'Sullivan (0-1), M. Murphy (0-2) & D. McAuliffe (0-1). N. Duggan (0-1), D. Kellaher (0-2), J. Creedon (0-1), D. O’Donovan (0-1) & J. O’Donovan (2-2).

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Derry0-13 – 1-5Tyrone
Attendance: 4,500

Donegal3-8 – 2-8Monaghan
Attendance: 4,500

Armagh1-8 – 0-5Down

Cavan1-10 – 2-1Antrim
Attendance: 6,120

Armagh0-2 – 3-4Derry

Cavan2-5 – 1-6Donegal
Attendance: 10,124

Cavan0-11 – 0-8Derry
Attendance: 24,800

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Kerry2-10 – 1-13Cavan
J. Dowling (0-1), T. Moriarty (0-1) T. Lyne (1-6), J. Culloty (0-1), M. Murphy (1-0) & D. McAuliffe (0-1).
Attendance: 41,278

Dublin0-7 – 1-4Mayo
M Flanagan (0-1), T Langan (1-1), J Curran (0-2, frees)
Attendance: 60,595
Referee: Peter McDermott (Meath)

Kerry4-7 – 0-5Cavan
P. Sheehy (0-2), J. J. Sheehan (1-0), T. Lyne (0-5), J. Culloty (1-0) & Mick Murphy (2-0).
Attendance: 71,504

Dublin1-8 – 1-7Mayo
J Curran (1-7, four frees).
Attendance: 71,504

Kerry0-12 – 1-6Dublin
J. Dowling (0-1), P. Sheehy (0-1), T. Lyne (0-6), M. Murphy (0-1) & J. Brosnan (0-2).
Attendance: 87,102

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

  • Even though Limerick did not take part in the Munster football championship between 1953 and 1964, they were scheduled to host Waterford but failed. Clare returned to the championship after a skip year.
  • Markievicz Park, Sligo was named after a woman of the 1916 uprising called Constance Markievicz.
  • Both of the All Ireland semi-finals end in a draw and go to a replay.
  • Dublin win their first Leinster title since 1942 and reach their first All Ireland final since that same year but are narrowly beaten by Kerry.

References

  1. "Football Results 1941 - 1970 | the Official Website of the GAA". Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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