Biography
Jer Doheny was born in Ballycallan, County Kilkenny in 1874. The son of John and Annie Doheny and a cousin of another great Kilkenny hurler, Pat 'Fox' Maher, he was educated locally and later, like many of his contemporaries, he worked as a farmer in nearby Tullaroan. Doheny was an all-round sportsperson who also played cricket in the early 1890s, however, he later concentrated on the game of hurling.
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