Code: | Hurling |
Sport: | Hurling |
Tom Coughlan | |
Irish: | Tomás Mac Cochláin |
Fullname: | Thomas Coughlan |
Feet: | 5 |
Inches: | 10 |
Nickname: | Honest Man |
Occupation: | Fisherman |
County: | Cork |
Province: | Munster |
Club: | Blackrock |
Clcounty: | 6 |
Counties: | Cork |
Icposition: | Centre-back |
Icyears: | 1901-1911 |
Icapps(Points): | 24 |
Icprovince: | 4 |
Icallireland: | 2 |
Birth Date: | 1881 |
Birth Place: | Blackrock, County Cork, Ireland |
Tom "Honest Man" Coughlan (born 1881) was an Irish hurler who played as a centre-back for the Cork senior team.
Coughlan joined the team during the 1901 championship and was a regular member of the starting fifteen until his retirement after the 1911 championship. During that time he captained the team on numerous occasions and won two All-Ireland medals and four Munster medals.[1] [2]
At club level Coughlan was a multiple county club championship medalist with Blackrock.
Coughlan came from a family of other hurlers, and his brothers, Pat, Denis and Dan, all won All-Ireland medals with Cork. His nephews, Eudie and John, were also All-Ireland medalists in the 1920s and 1930s.[3]