Different counties, different generations but the same address — a house in Cork city was once home to a Cork All-Ireland hurling winner and now hosts a Limerick one.

Limerick corner forward Graeme Mulcahy, who plays with Kilmallock GAA Club, lives at the same house in Kent Rd, Ballyphehane, which was home to the legendary Fr Pat Barry, when he won an All-Ireland senior medal with Cork in 1976.

Fr Barry, who works on the missions in Zambia, managed to watch the 28-year-old and his Limerick team overcome Galway with a thrilling 3-16 to 2-18 victory, of which Mulcahy contributed 1-2 from play. He was also named on The Sunday Game Team of the Year.

“We managed to ring him from the Citywest Hotel after the game and he was delighted for us,” said Mulcahy.

The Limerick star has lived in the house with his long-term partner, Laura Mellett, for the past two years. She is Fr Pat’s niece.

Fr Barry was born in 1951 in Ballyphehane and played hurling and Gaelic football with his school, Farranferris College.

He went to Maynooth College to study for the priesthood and captained the college side that won the Fitzgibbon Cup in 1974.

Although living on the southside, he enjoyed an illustrious career with the northside-based Glen Rovers club and in the 1970s was one of the first to be pencilled in on the Cork senior hurling team.

His hurling career culminated with him winning both Munster and All-Ireland honours in 1976.

Mulcahy said Fr Pat would visit the house from time to time in recent years and was back in Cork to see his mother before she passed away earlier this year.

The two All-Ireland winners will get to meet each other later next month when Fr Barry comes home to officiate at the wedding of another of his nieces.

Mulcahy said that when he first moved into the house two years ago, he would not have believed he would end up becoming an All-Ireland medal winner because Limerick hurling was not as strong then as it is now.

It’s quite amazing to be living in a house which had another All-Ireland medal winner in it,” he said.

Mulcahy said he does not need any reminding of Fr Barry’s famous past as there are many pictures of him on the walls from his playing days with Cork and that All-Ireland victory, as well as of the matches he played with Glen Rovers.

“I’m going to have to put up a few pictures of my own to even things up,” said Mulcahy.

Although he travels to Limerick for hurling training and matches, Mulcahy is based in Cork as a project manager with Arup engineers. He met Laura in 2007 when they were both studying architecture at UCC. She works with Cork Business Innovation Centre.