Town draws up plans for Sam Maguire visitor centre

PLANS are being drawn up to create a visitor centre in West Cork dedicated to one of the GAA’s most noted figures, Sam Maguire.

Town draws up plans for Sam Maguire visitor centre

The famous All-Ireland senior football trophy is named in honour of Maguire, a highly active member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) who died in 1927.

Born in February 1879 at Mallabracka, near Dunmanway, he is buried in the West Cork town’s St Mary’s cemetery.

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