Owen Roe McGovern

Owen Roe McGovern (December 1917 to 2 May 2011) was a Gaelic footballer from Swanlinbar who played for the Cavan county team and won two All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medals, in 1947 and 1948. He could play at corner-back or half-back, was part of the Cavan squad that won the 1947 final at the Polo Grounds in New York City, and replaced John Joe O'Reilly in defence in the second half of the 1948 final. In 1949 he started at left corner-back when Meath denied Cavan a third title in a row, and he won National Football League titles with Cavan in 1947-48 and 1949-50. After serving in the Irish Army he emigrated to Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1957, and he was the last survivor of Cavan's 1947 and 1948 winning teams.