Kilkenny, who defeated Wexford 6-4 to 5-6 in the Leinster final with three goals from Maura Cassin and two from Angela Downey, had no opposition in the semi-final.
It was a tense final with both free takes Liz Garvan and Ann Carroll missing from positions from which they would normally have scored.
Shortly after the final, Liz Garvan travelled to Zambia to take up a teaching job and was lost to the game.
Agnes Hourigan, president of the Camogie Association, wrote in the Irish Press: The pity of yesterday’s game was that it never got off the ground.
Both teams seemed to be too tense from the start and though Cork did manage to relax somewhat when they got ahead in the closing stages, one felt, considering the obvious talent of both teams, that the fare provided was only an insipid shadow of what it might have been, The marking was very close throughout, and while it had its moment’s the final never gave us the fast spectacular open play that we had seen earlier in the junior decider.