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1974 Galway Senior Hurling Championship

annual hurling competition season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ137168390 ↗
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The 1974 Galway Senior Hurling Championship was the 77th completed staging of the Galway Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Galway County Board in 1887.

Castlegar entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were beaten by Kinvara in the second round.

The final was played on 15 September 1974 at Duggan Park in Ballinasloe, between Ardrahan and Castlegar, in what was their third meeting in the final overall. Ardrahan won the match by 2–10 to 1–10 to claim their ninth championship title overall and a first title in 25 years.

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“1974 Galway Senior Hurling Championship” enters the record as annual hurling competition season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Galway, Senior and Hurling can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “1974 Galway 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.