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1898 Cork Junior Hurling Championship

Irish hurling competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ136090354 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1898 Cork Junior Hurling Championship was the fourth staging of the Cork Junior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1895.

The final was played on 18 September 1898 at the Park in Cork, between Redmonds and Blarney, in what was their first ever meeting in the final. Redmonds won the match by 6-02 to 2-05 to claim their second championship title in succession.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1898 Cork Junior Hurling Championship” is irish hurling competition. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Cork, Junior and Hurling, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1898, 1895—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Cork, Junior and Hurling is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q136090354. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1898 and 1895.

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This entry incorporates text from “1898 Cork Junior Hurling Championship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.