Tom Walton (hurler)

Tom Walton, formally Thomas Christopher Walton, was an Irish hurler who lived from 1921 until his death on 18 January 1998. At club level he played with Tullaroan, with whom he won the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship in 1948 as captain, and he was an All-Ireland Championship winner with the Kilkenny senior hurling team in 1947. He joined the Kilkenny senior team in 1945 and was at right corner-forward in that year's All-Ireland final defeat by Tipperary, and he held the same position when Kilkenny lost a second successive All-Ireland final the following year. He also won the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship in 1945, 1946, 1947 and 1950.