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Patrick Moore (Gaelic footballer)

Irish Gaelic footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ7147242 ↗
Source-derived summary

Patrick D. Moore (born 1867) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played for the Cork senior team.

Moore made his first appearance for the team during the 1889 championship and was a regular member of the starting fifteen for the next two seasons. During that time, he won one All-Ireland medal and one Munster medal.

At club level, Moore was a two-time county championship medalist with Midleton.

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“Patrick Moore (Gaelic footballer)” enters the record as irish Gaelic footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Patrick, Moore and Gaelic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1867, 1889—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1867. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Patrick, Moore and Gaelic.
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“Patrick Moore (Gaelic footballer)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Patrick, Moore and Gaelic provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7147242. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1867 and 1889.

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This entry incorporates text from “Patrick Moore (Gaelic footballer)” 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.