- Source: 1897 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
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- 1897 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final
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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.
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
== Munster Senior Hurling Championship
=All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
= All-Ireland semi-finals
== All-Ireland Final
=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).