so only 3 counties - Waterford, Killkenny and Tipperary are totally in the hurling zone. Im told that there are football only parts of Tipperary though. One might be surprised to see that cork seems to have a smaller area of hurling land compared to its success but you should know that the shaded area includes the city which has a lot of teams for a realtively small area.
Offally was not a hurling county until the late 1970's . The GAA conducted an experiment/program to help a non-traditional county upgrade its hurling. The result was that offally won 4 all -ireland since and took 9 leinsters. Not bad going. I'd love to find out more about this program. Perhaps a specialist out there could get a book out of it??
There a few counties that have small hold outs. Kerry, Carlow (all though in fairness Carlow is small enough that this area takes up about a 1/4 of the county!) Antrim and Down. Roscommon also appears shaded here but i dont know if that's accurate or just the way it was drawn.
Im not sure what qualifies as true hurling country; I know that some of the shaded areas have great football teams and likewise there are great hurling teams from outside the area aswell. All of the cities undshaded- Galway, Dublin and Belfast all have big hurling teams.
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