1947 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final
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| Event | 1947 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 7 September 1947 | ||||||
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Man of the Match | Terry Leahy | ||||||
| Referee | Phil Purcell (Tipperary) | ||||||
| Attendance | 61,510 | ||||||
| Weather | Dry and sunny. | ||||||
The 1947 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 60th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1947 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at Croke Park, Dublin, on 7 September 1947, between Kilkenny and Cork. The Munster champions narrowly lost to their Leinster opponents and great rivals on a score line of 0-14 to 2-7.
It is generally agreed by former players and commentators that the 1947 All-Ireland final was the greatest championship decider of all-time. Contested by two fierce rivals, with more than a game at stake, the final contained a mixture of pure hurling, fierce exchanges, excitement and a heart-stopping last-gasp score to clinch a victory when a draw seemed likely.
This was the second consecutive meeting of Cork and Kilkenny in the All-Ireland final. Cork went into this game as reigning champions, after trouncing their great rivals twelve months earlier. This was Kilkenny’s third consecutive appearance in an All-Ireland final; however, they had yet to claim a victory. A defeat in 1947 would earn for Kilkenny the unenviable distinction of being the first team to lose three All-Ireland finals in-a-row. A victory, however, would give Kilkenny a first All-Ireland triumph since the great ‘thunder and lightning final’ against Cork in 1939. Cork, on the other hand, were enjoying a remarkably successful decade in terms of All-Ireland triumphs. This was their seventh appearance in the All-Ireland decider in nine championship seasons. After losing to Kilkenny in 1939 the team regrouped and went on to claim an unprecedented four-in-a-row from 1941 until 1944. The chain was broken in 1945, however, Cork claimed a fifth All-Ireland crown inside six years in 1946. To win in 1947 would give Cork a remarkable sixth All-Ireland title in seven years, thus bettering similar records set by Tipperary and Kilkenny at the turn of the century.
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