Code: | Football |
Sport: | Gaelic football |
Bill Kinnerk | |
Irish: | Liam Mac an Airchinn |
Feet: | 5 |
Inches: | 11 |
Nickname: | Billum |
Occupation: | CIÉ employee |
County: | Kerry |
Province: | Munster |
Club: | John Mitchels |
Clcounty: | 2 |
Counties: | Kerry |
Icposition: | Left corner-back |
Icyears: | 1932-1939 |
Icapps(Points): | 19 (0-00) |
Icprovince: | 5 |
Icallireland: | 2 |
Nfl: | 0 |
Icupdate: | 18:45, 18 June 2020 |
Birth Date: | 14 November 1907 |
Birth Place: | Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland |
Death Date: | 6 September 1983 (75) |
Death Place: | Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland |
William Kinnerk (14 November 1907 – 6 September 1983) was an Irish Gaelic footballer and local politician. At club level he played with the John Mitchels club and was an All-Ireland Championship medallist with the Kerry senior football team.
Born in Tralee, Kinnerk first played competitive Gaelic football with Tralee Technical School. After lining out with a number of local clubs, he joined John Mitchels and claimed his first Kerry Senior Football Championship medal in his debut year in 1929. He claimed a second county medal as team captain in 1937. Kinnerk first joined the Kerry senior football team in 1932 and ended the year by winning his first All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medal as a substitute. He broke onto the starting fifteen the following year, and was a regular member of the team until his retirement after a tour of the United States in 1939. During that time Kinnerk won five Munster Championship medals as well as claiming an All-Ireland medal on the field of play in 1937.[1]