1888 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

1888 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

All-Ireland Champions
Winning team	Not played ( win)
Provincial Champions
Munster	Tipperary
Leinster	Kilkenny
Ulster	Monaghan
Connacht	Not played
Championship statistics
← 1887 1889 →

The 1888 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was unfinished owing to the American Invasion Tour, an unsuccessful attempt to raise funds for a revival of the Tailteann Games.^[1]

The 1888 provincial championships had been completed (Tipperary, Kilkenny and Monaghan winning them; no Connacht teams entered) but after the Invasion tour returned, the All-Ireland semi-final and final were not played.^[2]

Results

Leinster

3 June 1888
Quarter-final

Dublin	1–6 – 0–1	Kildare

Donnybrook

Referee: JJ Reilly

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10 June 1888
Quarter-final

Kilkenny	1–3 – 0–0	Queen's County

Maryborough

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: GF Moore

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1 July 1888
Quarter-final

Wicklow	0–2 – 0–1	Wexford

Donnybrook

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: JJ Reilly

Wicklow used illegal players, and the game was stopped by a pitch invasion with ten minutes to go, so a replay was ordered.

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19 August 1888
Quarter-final replay

Wexford	1–3 – 0–2	Wicklow

Clonskeagh

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: JP Cox

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19 August 1888
Quarter-final

Louth	2–4 – 0–0	Meath

Bryanstown

Referee: JJ O'Reilly

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2 September 1888
Semi-final

Kilkenny	2-1 – 0–3	Louth

Clonskeagh

Referee: JJ Cullen

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2 September 1888
Semi-final

Wexford	0–4 – 0–3	Dublin

Clonskeagh

Referee: T Harrington

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23 September 1888
Final

Kilkenny	1–4 – 0–2	Wexford

New Ross

Munster

27 May 1888
Quarter-final

Tipperary	0-2 – 0-2	Cork

Buttevant

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: T.O'Riordan

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8 July 1888
Semi-final

Clare	1-3 – 1-0	Limerick

Birdhill

Referee: J Callinan

Limerick were awarded the game due to Clare playing illegal players.

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22 July 1888
Semi-final

Tipperary	0-3 – 0-1	Waterford

Clonmel

Referee: T Harrington

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10 November 1888
Final

Tipperary	w/o – scr.	Limerick

Pallasgreen

Ulster

19 August 1888
Final

Monaghan	0–2 – 0–2	Cavan

Drogheda

Neither team could field the full 21 players, so 15-a-side was agreed.

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9 September 1888
Final Replay

Monaghan	0–3 – 0–0	Cavan

Bryanstown, County Meath

Championship statistics

Miscellaneous

• No All Ireland series due to US tour.

Sligo and Mayo played a draw in the Connacht final. There is no record of a replay.

References

1. "The 1888 American Invasion Tour". Archived from the original on 2 August 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2011.
2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2011.