Code: | Hurling |
Sport: | Hurling |
Peter Cregan | |
Irish: | Peadar Ó Críagáin |
Birth Date: | 13 May 1918 |
Death Date: | 12 August 2004 (aged 86) |
Feet: | 5 |
Inches: | 9 |
County: | Limerick |
Province: | Munster |
Club: | Croom |
Clcounty: | 2 |
Counties: | Limerick |
Icposition: | Left wing-back |
Icyears: | 1937–1947 |
Icprovince: | 1 |
Icallireland: | 1 |
Nhl: | 1 |
Icupdate: | 14:21, 16 May 2015 |
Birth Place: | Croom, County Limerick, Ireland |
Death Place: | Fedamore, County Limerick, Ireland |
Peter Cregan (13 May 1918 – 12 August 2004) was an Irish hurler who played as a goalkeeper for the Limerick senior team.[1]
Born in Croom, County Limerick, Cregan first appeared on the inter-county scene at the age of sixteen with the Limerick minor team. He made his senior debut during the 1937 championship. Cregan immediately became a regular member of the starting fifteen and won one All-Ireland medals, one Munster medal and one National Hurling League medal.
As a member of the Munster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions, Cregan won four Railway Cup medals. At club level he was twice a championship medallist with Croom.
Cregan retired before to the start of the 1947 championship.