Senior Hurling Championship

Longford has participated in the following Senior Hurling Championship competitions:

1) Leinster SHC (Senior A)
2) Nickey Rackard Cup (Senior D)
3) Lory Meagher Cup (Senior E)
4) All-Ireland ‘B’ SHC (Senior B – Discontinued)

Leinster SHC is one of the Provincial Championships which feeds the Tier 1 All-Ireland Senior Hurling ‘A’ Championship (Liam McCarthy Cup). Longford competed in just two seasons, with a walkover to Wexford in November 1903 and a loss to Westmeath in July 1904. After 1904 Longford played intermittently in Leinster Junior Hurling Championship.

In 1903: Longford SCR, Wexford W/O
In 1904: Longford 1-0, Westmeath 2-9 (🔗 here)

Longford is the only Leinster county never to win a Leinster Hurling Championship at any grade.

Note: Published records are not clear or agreed on whether the 1903 game vs Wexford was part of the 1902 or 1903 SHC or whether the 1904 game vs Westmeath was part of the 1903 or 1904 SHC. A foremost authority on this is Sligo native Padraig Ferguson who has advised that the November 1903 tie was likely the delayed 1902 SHC while the July 1904 tie was likely the delayed 1903 SHC.

* Longford (Lory Meagher Cup) played Sligo (Nickey Rackard Cup) in Relegation/Promotion Playoff in 2014.

Longford competed in All-Ireland SHC ‘B’ competition in 1995 & 1996.

• 1995: Longford 0-2, Kildare 7-19
• 1996: Longford 3-6, Louth 5-14

The All-Ireland Senior Hurling ‘B’ Championship was a Tier 2 competition which was discontinued.

• 1903 Leinster SHC vs Wexford was conceded and Football game played instead.
• 1904 Leinster SHC vs Westmeath may have been the delayed 1903 Championship.
• Longford represented in some of the early hurling games by Longford Leo Caseys.
• 2017 Longford had a bye in Round 1 of Nickey Rackard Cup – Hence no Round 1 shown.
• 2021 Longford had a bye in Round 2 of Lory Meagher Cup – Hence no Round 2 shown.
• 2010 Longford won Lory Meagher Cup but not promoted because GAA applied a 1-year hiatus to promotions.
• 2010 Rounds 1 & 2 also called ‘All-Ireland Senior ‘D’ Hurling Championship’ or ‘Lory Meagher Cup Qualifier’ rounds.
• 2013 Lory Meagher Cup final (Longford v Warwickshire) involved 1st use of Hawkeye technology in GAA. 

1902 & 1903: Published records are not clear or agreed on whether the 1903 game vs Wexford was part of the 1902 or 1903 SHC or whether the 1904 game vs Westmeath was part of the 1903 or 1904 SHC. A foremost authority on this is Sligo native Padraig Ferguson who has advised that the November 1903 tie was likely the delayed 1902 SHC while the July 1904 tie was likely the delayed 1903 SHC.

1903 Leinster Cup: Longford competed in a Leinster Cup competition (separate to Leinster SHC) in July 1903, playing Meath in the first round and losing by 2-10 to nil at Jones’s Road. 

Sources: All inter-county match and player records used on this website were researched by our team using newspaper records, and are not taken from any existing databases or datasets. Where gaps exist in past newspaper records, other published records from the era or related to the era are consulted to try and bridge any gaps. 

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