[4] The championship was held inconsistently over the coming decades, until "hurling again vanished from the Cavan G.A.A.

[3] Senior county hurling finals were not held again in Cavan, with any consistency, until the 1980s.

[5] Mullahoran won 21 back-to-back titles in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, until 2011 when that run was ended in a defeat to Ballymachugh in the 2011 final.

[6][7] Cootehill and Mullahoran were the two main clubs in the competition during the second decade of the 21st century, meeting in the final in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017.

On 27 September 2015, in a final held at Kingspan Breffni Park, Mullahoran made a comeback to force a draw and a replay.