cork last won the all ireland hurling final in 1944.
cork last won the all ireland hurling final in 1944.
when did cork last win the all ireland hurling final?
1944
2009 all-ireland senior hurling championship final









































the 2009 all-ireland hurling final was a hurling match played on 6 september 2009 in croke park, dublin, between kilkenny and tipperary. it was the first time the two teams had met in the all-ireland final since 1991. kilkenny's win was their fourth in a row, an accomplishment last matched by cork between 1941 and 1944.
2009 all-ireland senior hurling championship final
founded in 1884 by fr.con buckley (who attended the inaugural meeting of the gaa in hayes hotel in thurles in the same year), buttevant gaa has fielded teams in hurling and football since that time. the club has played in the former british army barracks since 1922, and officially took over the grounds from the state in the 1950s. success on the field of play came in 1926 when the intermediate footballers won the cork county championship. the club also contested and lost the intermediate hurling final in the same year. after numerous attempts, the club finally won the cork intermediate hurling final in 1940, the team was backboned by cork's 'four in a row' all-ireland winning fullback batt thornhill. other players from the club to wear the red and white of cork included dual star billy mackessey (who won all ireland hurling and football in 1903 and 1911), peter 'hawker' o'grady (who won an all ireland hurling medal in the 1930s), and tommy o'sullivan (who scored the winning goal in the 1952 all ireland hurling final and collected another all ireland medal in 1953). other success at adult level came in 1996 when the hurlers won the cork county junior b title.
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