Edwin Carolan is a former Gaelic football

Gaelic football

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 player for Cavan

Cavan GAA

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.

Playing career

A native of Mullagh. He was a member of the great Cavan squad which won the All-Ireland Final in the Polo Grounds

Polo Grounds

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, New York in 1947. He won a second All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the premier competition in Gaelic football, is a series of games organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association and played during the summer and early autumn...

 medal the following year. But, he is best remembered for scoring the equalising point to earn Cavan a replay in the 1952 All-Ireland Final against Co. Meath, Cavan went on to win the replay. He also won the National Football League

National Football League (Ireland)

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 in 1949/50 season. His brother Pat Carolan also played in the 1952 Final. He won 1 Sigerson Cup

Sigerson Cup

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 medal with University College Dublin

University College Dublin

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 and won numerous Railway Cup medals with Ulster. He helped establish Cavan Gaels

Cavan Gaels

Cavan Gaels is a Gaelic Athletic Association club from County Cavan in Ireland. They are affiliated to Cavan GAA.Cavan Gaels have appeared in nine of the last ten Cavan Senior Football Championship finals...

 and won a 1958 League medal with the town.

Edwin Carolan Memorial Park

Mullagh, County Cavan

Mullagh is a village in County Cavan province of Ulster, Ireland. It had a population of 679 in 2006. It lies in the south-east of the county, at the junction of the R191 and the R194 regional roads near the town of Virginia, County Cavan and the border with Kells, County Meath and the village of...

is named after him.