# 1948 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

The 1948 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 62nd staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic football knock-out competition.
Fermanagh play their last Ulster championship game until 1960.
Limerick take a 2 year break from the Munster championship.
Cavan won their second title in a row.

## Results
### Leinster Senior Football Championship
#### Final

| GK | 1 | Seán Thornton (Civil Service, Dublin) |
| RCB | 2 | Jack Bell (Stabannon Parnells) |
| FB | 3 | Eddie Boyle (Seán McDermotts, Dublin) |
| LCB | 4 | Johnny Malone (St Mary's) |
| RHB | 5 | Seán Boyle (St Mary's) |
| CHB | 6 | Paddy Markey (St Mary's) |
| LHB | 7 | Jimmy McDonnell (Darver Volunteers) |
| MF | 8 | Ray Mooney (St Mary's) |
| MF | 9 | Kevin Connolly (Cooley Kickhams) |
| RHF | 10 | Mick Hardy (Cooley Kickhams) |
| CHF | 11 | Stephen White (Cooley Kickhams) |
| LHF | 12 | Frank Fagan (Dundalk Young Irelands) |
| RCF | 13 | Larry Carr (Oliver Plunketts) |
| FF | 14 | Jim Quigley (Dundalk Young Irelands) (c) |
| LCF | 15 | Hugh O'Rourke (Cooley Kickhams) |
| Substitutes: ||
| | 16 | Paddy McArdle (St Mary's) for Mooney |
| GK | 1 | Joe O'Neill (Clonee) |
| RCB | 2 | Jackie Culleton (St John's Volunteers) |
| FB | 3 | Jim Cullen (St Anne's) |
| LCB | 4 | Jim Coady (Guinness, Dublin) |
| RHB | 5 | Jim Rogers (Blackwater) |
| CHB | 6 | Willie Goodison (St John's Volunteers) |
| LHB | 7 | John Morris (St John's Volunteers) |
| MF | 8 | Seán Eustace (St Aidan's, Ballymitty) |
| MF | 9 | Dermot Clancy (Ballinglen) |
| RHF | 10 | Des O'Neill (Rathnure) |
| CHF | 11 | Nicky Rackard (Rathnure) |
| LHF | 12 | Paddy Kehoe (Gusserane O'Rahilly's) (c) |
| RCF | 13 | John O'Connor (St John's Volunteers) |
| FF | 14 | Billy Kelly (St Aidan's, Ballymitty) |
| LCF | 15 | Sam Thorpe (Slaney Harriers) |
| Substitutes: ||
| | 16 | Mick O'Hanlon (Gusserane O'Rahilly's) for Eustace |
| | 17 | Paddy Waters (St Aidan's, Ballymitty) for Cullen |

### All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
#### Semi-Final

| GK | 1 | Des Benson (Croghan) |
| RCB | 2 | Willie Doonan (Cavan Harps) |
| FB | 3 | Brian O'Reilly (Mullahoran) |
| LCB | 4 | Paddy Smith (St Mary's, Louth) |
| RHB | 5 | P. J. Duke (Stradone) |
| CHB | 6 | John Joe O'Reilly (Curragh, Kildare) (c) |
| LHB | 7 | Simon Deignan (12th Battalion, Limerick) |
| MF | 8 | Phil Brady (Mullahoran) |
| MF | 9 | Victor Sherlock (Kingscourt Stars) |
| RHF | 10 | Tony Tighe (Mountnugent) |
| CHF | 11 | Mick Higgins (Oliver Plunketts, Louth) |
| LHF | 12 | John Joe Cassidy (Banba, Dublin) |
| RCF | 13 | Joe Stafford (Clanna Gael, Dublin) |
| FF | 14 | Peter Donohoe (Banba, Dublin) |
| LCF | 15 | Edwin Carolan (UCD, Dublin) |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 1 | Seán Thornton (Civil Service, Dublin) |
| RCB | 2 | Jack Bell (Stabannon Parnells) |
| FB | 3 | Eddie Boyle (Seán McDermotts, Dublin) |
| LCB | 4 | Johnny Malone (St Mary's) |
| RHB | 5 | Seán Boyle (St Mary's) |
| CHB | 6 | Paddy Markey (St Mary's) |
| LHB | 7 | Jimmy McDonnell (Darver Volunteers) |
| MF | 8 | Ray Mooney (St Mary's) |
| MF | 9 | Kevin Connolly (Cooley Kickhams) |
| RHF | 10 | Mick Hardy (Cooley Kickhams) |
| CHF | 11 | Stephen White (Cooley Kickhams) |
| LHF | 12 | Frank Fagan (Dundalk Young Irelands) |
| RCF | 13 | Larry Carr (Oliver Plunketts) |
| FF | 14 | Jim Quigley (Dundalk Young Irelands) (c) |
| LCF | 15 | Mickey Reynolds (Stabannon Parnells) |
| Substitutes: ||
| | 16 | Jack Regan (Dundalk Gaels) for White |

#### Final
## Championship statistics
### Miscellaneous

* Fermanagh withdraw from Ulster championship until 1960.
* Limerick withdraw from Munster championship for the next 2 years.
* The All Ireland semi-final between Cavan and Louth was their first championship meeting.
* Cavan becomes the first county from Ulster to be All Ireland Champions for 2 in a row.

## Roll of Honour

* Kerry - 16 (1946)
* Dublin - 15 (1942)
* Wexford - 5 (1918)
* Cavan - 4 (1948)
* Kildare - 4 (1928)
* Tipperary - 4 (1920)
* Cork - 3 (1945)
* Galway - 3 (1938)
* Roscommon - 2 (1944)
* Limerick - 2 (1896)
* Louth - 2 (1912)
* Mayo - 1 (1936)