Sligo Senior Football Championship 1956

This is a round-up of the 1956 Sligo Senior Football Championship. Tourlestrane were champions for the first time in this year, as they avenged the previous year's final defeat to rivals Tubbercurry by seven points.

Quarter Finals

Game

Date

Venue

Team A

Score

Team B

Score

Sligo SFC
Quarter Final

July 22

Ballymote

Tubbercurry

beat

Ballymote

(no score)

Sligo SFC
Quarter Final

July 29

Ballymote

Tourlestrane

beat

Mental Hospital

(15 pts)

Sligo SFC
Quarter Final

August 5

Markievicz Park

Keash

2-8

Curry

0-6

Semi-Finals

Game

Date

Venue

Team A

Score

Team B

Score

Sligo SFC
Semi-Final

August 26

Ballymote

Tourlestrane

2-8

Craobh Rua

2-5

Sligo SFC
Semi-Final

August 26

Ballymote

Tubbercurry

3-7

Keash

0-3

Sligo Senior Football Championship Final

Tourlestrane

4-1 - 0-6
(final score after 60 minutes)

Tubbercurry


Team:
T. Goulden
J. Walshe
P. Kennedy
T. Nealon
D. Scannell
T. Walshe
P. Murtagh
M. Christie
O. Kirrane
W. Haran
E. O'Hara
J. Walshe
P. Quinn
N. Feehily
P. Owens


Substitutes:

Half-time:
3-1 - 0-2

Competition:
Sligo Senior Football Championship
(Final)

Date:
September 2, 1956

Venue:
Corran Park, Ballymote

Referee:


Team:
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