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1952 Offaly Senior Hurling Championship

annual hurling competition season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ136513761 ↗
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The 1952 Offaly Senior Hurling Championship was the 55th staging of the Offaly Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Offaly County Board in 1896.

Drumcullen entered the championship as the defending champions.

The final was played on 31 August 1952 at St Brendan's Park in Birr, between Drumcullen and Seir Kieran, in what was their first ever meeting in the final. Drumcullen won the match by 9–11 to 4–03 to claim their 13th championship title overall and a third championship title in succession.

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“1952 Offaly Senior Hurling Championship” enters the record as annual hurling competition season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Offaly, Senior and Hurling can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “1952 Offaly Senior 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.