1887 Meath Senior Football Championship

The 1887 Meath Football Championship was the first edition of the Meath GAA's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament, for the 12 clubs that chose to participate. The final was played on Sunday 17 April 1887, with Dowdstown (later to become Walterstown) winning by 1-0 to 0-0 against Kells. Unlike later Meath Football Championships, there were no groups and it was an open draw.

Meath S.F.C.
Season1887
ChampionsDowdstown
RelegatedNone
All Ireland S.F.C.Dowdstown
Commercials 3-2, 0-2 Dowdstown
Matches played11
1888 →

Dowdstown, as county champions, went on to represent Meath in the 1887 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, also the first All-Ireland Championship, but lost to Commercials of Limerick in the First Round.

Format

The 1887 championship was held as an open-draw knockout tournament.

Participating Clubs

The clubs that chose to participate were:

Club 1887 Championship Position
Donecarney Semi-Final
Donore Round One
Dowdstown Champions
Grangegeeth Round Two
Kells Runners-Up
Kilbeg Round Two
Marywell Round One
Mullagh Round One
Rathkenny Round One
Stackallen Round One
Yellow Furze Round One

Results

In 1887 point posts flanked the goalposts. A forfeit point was awarded to the opposition when a defender kicked the ball over his own end line. Forfeit points were counted when the scores were level at the end of the game. A forfeit point is represented as 0-0-1 (Goal-Point-Forfeit).

First Round
First Round
Mullagh0-6 - 0-8Kilbeg
First Round
Stackallen0-3-0 - 2-20-6Kells
First Round
MarywellL - WKilmessan
First Round
Yellow Furze0-0-0 - 0-7-2Dowdstown
First Round
Rathkenny0-0-1 - 1-1-1Grangegeeth
First Round
Donore0-1 - 1-2Donecarney

Second Round
Second Round
Grangegeeth0-0-0 - 0-2-1Doncarney
Second Round
Dowdstown0-1 - 0-0Kilmessan
Second Round
Kilbeg0-0-0 - 0-13-5Kells

Semi-Final
Semi-Final
DowdstownW - LDonecarney

Final
Final
Dowdstown1-0 - 0-0Kells

Kells objected to the result maintaining that the Dowdstown goal was unjustly scored. A subsequent County Committee meeting did not accept the objection. Kells submitted the dispute to the Central Executive. No record can be found of the result of this objection other than Dowdstown were eventually declared winners of the 1887 Meath Football Championship.

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