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Jump To Comment: 1 2He is buried in the Church of Ireland cemetery of saint Mary's Dunmanway.
In 1928 shortly after Sam Maguire's death a group of his friends formed a committee in Dublin to raise funds for a permanent commemoration of his name.
They decided on a cup to be presented to the G.A.A.
The G.A.A were proud to accept it.
It was modeled on the "Ardagh Chalice" one of Ireland's national treasures which is dated to the 9th century, the silver bronze alloy body has exceptional gold filagree work amd was found according to legend in 1847 the year of Ireland's "great famine" by a young boy searching for potatoes.
But the truth is it was found by Jimmy Quin and Paddy Flanagan who were digging for potatoes in September 1868 in a ring fort at Reerasta, Ardagh.
The Roman catholic order the "Sisters of Mercy" owned the land and Mrs. Quin rented about 15 - 20 acres from the nuns. Jimmy was her son and Mr Flanagan was a workman employed at the time by the Quin family. It has been suggested that it was he who actually found the chalice but that Quin took all the glory. He felt aggrieved by the situation and felt obliged to leave the employment of the Quin's. On his death he was buried in the Paupers' graveyard in Newcastlewest whilst Quin went to live in Australia.
Mrs Quin sold the "ardagh hoard" which included the chalice (now priceless) and several other items (four brooces and a bronze chalice) to the then Roman Catholic bishop of Limerick Dr. Butler for £50 who in turn sold it to the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) a predominantly protestant institution at that time, (which was responsible for Irish heritage and motivating the gaelic renaissance) for £500 a hefty profit.
It now resides in the Irish national Museum, and till someone finds something more interesting is one of our top national treasures.
The GAA Maguire Cup was made by Hopkins and Hopkins of O'Connell's bridge (a protestant company) now extinct for £300 in 1928 possibly equivalent to €25,000 today.
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the sam maguire cup.
fair play to tír eoghan, great to see ulster becoming so strong, at a time when the weapons are being put finally to bed
there is hope, there is strength, there is confidence
the dubs did battle well this year too though..