Here's a random list of 15 Kilkenny farmers (I'm sure there's more) from the past who've won a Senior Hurling All-Ireland Championship. (Medals won in brackets)

Jer Doheny (1)
Pat "Fox" Maher (1)
Walter "Whittie" Dunphy (1)
Sim Walton (7)
John T. Power (4)
Dick "Drug" Walsh (7)
Ned Doyle (6)
Jimmy Kelly (6)
Lory Meagher (4)
Jim Langton (2)
Jim Treacy (4)
Pa Dillon (3)
Pat Delaney (4)
Ger Henderson (3)
Richie Mullaly (5)

Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2477 - 02/07/2015 20:08:17    1746667

Cockney cat jim treacy was not a farmer

johnwhite12 (Kilkenny) - Posts: 306 - 02/07/2015 20:44:30    1746690

johnwhite12
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Cockney cat jim treacy was not a farmer

His was according to here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Treacy

Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2477 - 02/07/2015 21:10:54    1746717

Farmers, schoolteachers, soldiers, guards and students, the backbone of inter-county trams. Sure who else can afford the time off ? :)

Maroonatic (Galway) - Posts: 1060 - 02/07/2015 21:42:57    1746744

He worked as a fitter in smithwicks brewery you must not be a Bridge man

johnwhite12 (Kilkenny) - Posts: 306 - 02/07/2015 21:59:42    1746759

DF
SH did work with council but he was also a part farmer. My admission of John Flanagan was an inexcusable senior moment and of course Mick O'Brien was a farmer also. However a number of other farmers who hurled with LK have come to mind. Among them are Jack Keane of the 1918-23 era and his son Willie who played in the fifties with fellow Ahane man Paddy Enright. Paddy Kennedy of Pallas another 1918 man and father of James Kennedy who wrote the book 'We drank water from the river' was also a man of the land. Paddy Carroll of Effin the 1936 corner back and grandfather of the Killeedy hurlers Patrick and Danny Cremin also comes to mind.

Oldtourman (Limerick) - Posts: 4321 - 03/07/2015 08:47:41    1746774

DF, indeed Eoin O'Neill snr was a vet, but a vet with a fine farm of land also. Prendergast was a farmer in Clara. Banger is still a farmer (the day after the AL final loss in 2007, he bought a tractor in Drogheda, and drove it all the way to Glenroe). That was one way of gettinng over the loss. I think Flanagan was a farmer in his inter-county hurling days, but not sure whether he is still at it or not. Donie Ryan is also a farmer, albeit part-time. He'd have dry stock. Quite a few players would be like that I'd say, holding down a non-farming job but farming in their spare time (not that IC players have much of that these days). The Reynolds in Meath are potatoe farmers, one of the biggest in the country actually. And Carter has a flaking farm on land in KK.

shoulderghost (Limerick) - Posts: 863 - 03/07/2015 08:50:43    1746778