Royal Portrush's Peter Kerr fired four birdies in a two under 69 to take a one-stroke lead into the last two rounds of the Leinster Boys Amateur Open Championship 2014 at Kilkenny Golf Club.

He leads on level par 142 from Castle's Barry Fitzpatrick, who shot a best of the day 68, Bray's Alan Fahy (70), Ring of Kerry's Tommy O'Driscoll (72) and Laytown & Bettystown's Thomas Mulligan (73).

Another Royal Portrush talent, Jamie Knipe, is just two behind on 144 with Luke Cummins (West Waterford), Ryan Long (Cairndhu) and Kilkenny's Brian Crowdle still well in touch on four over 146.

Leinster Boys Amateur Open Championship 2014

Kilkenny Golf Club (Par 71 CSS R1 74 CSS R2 72)

After 36 holes

Qualifiers

142 Peter Kerr (Royal Portrush) 73 69

143 Barry Fitzpatrick (Castle) 75 68, Alan Fahy (Bray) 73 70, Tommy O'Driscoll (Ring Of Kerry) 71 72, Thomas Mulligan (Laytown & Bettystown) 70 73

144 Jamie Knipe (Royal Portrush) 73 71

146 Luke Cummins (West Waterford) 74 72, Ryan Long (Cairndhu) 74 72, Brian Crowdle (Kilkenny) 74 72

147 Charlie Hendrick (Grange) 77 70, Karl Eccles (Clandeboye) 75 72, Jack Howard (Fota Island) 70 77

148 David Carey (Carton House) 77 71, Ted Collins (Dun Laoghaire) 75 73, Kevin Power (Kilkenny) 75 73, John Molyneaux (Ballybunion) 74 74, James McVicker (Knock) 71 77

150 Jack Madden (Dungannon) 78 72, Oisin Devereux (Carton House) 77 73, Cameron Raymond (Newlands) 75 75, Marc Boucher (Carton House) 74 76, Marc McKinstry (Cairndhu) 74 76

151 Glenn Fry (Greystones) 77 74, Rob Brazill (Naas) 77 74, John Bolger (Courtown) 77 74, Gareth Carr (Mullingar) 75 76

152 John Cleary (Elm Park) 78 74, Darragh Smith (Castle) 78 74, Michael Cooke (Waterford) 76 76, Mark Power (Kilkenny) 76 76, Jack Brown (The Heath) 74 78

153 Jonathan Doherty (Ballina) 79 74, Conor Ryan (Dun Laoghaire) 78 75, Harry Duggan (Kilkenny) 77 76, Sean Walsh (Carton House) 75 78, James Lennon (Carlow) 73 80

154 Conor Harte (Castle) 80 74, Ben Graham (Scrabo) 80 74, Patrick Brennan (Belvoir Park) 79 75, David Hill (Roscommon) 77 77, Sean McParland (Greystones) 77 77, Declan Kelly (Hermitage) 76 78, Liam Grehan (Mullingar) 76 78, Alastair McQuillan (Cushendall) 73 81, Cameron Mills (Shandon Park) 73 81

155 Jamie Dunne (Borris) 82 73, Louis O'Hara (Athenry) 81 74, Marc Norton (Belvoir Park) 81 74, Mark MacGrath (Limerick) 81 74, Eoin Kelly (Co. Meath) 80 75, David Clince (Craddockstown) 80 75

Non Qualifiers

155 Dylan Burke (Cahir Park) 80 75, Neil McKinstry (Cairndhu) 78 77, Eric Rumley (Kinsale) 77 78, Spencer Adamson (K Club) 77 78

156 Jack Johnston (Clandeboye) 83 73, Gavin Fitzmaurice (Balcarrick) 80 76, Mark Doogue (Baltinglass) 80 76, John Murphy (Kinsale) 79 77, Sean Doyle (Athlone) 79 77, Michael Ryan (New Ross) 79 77, Jack Dempsey (Newbridge) 79 77, Adam McCormick (Scrabo) 78 78, Rory Williamson (Holywood) 78 78, Devin Morley (Oughterard) 78 78, Cathal Butler (Kinsale) 77 79, Caolan Kennedy (Forrest Little.) 75 81

157 Eoin Conway (West Waterford) 82 75, Nick Moore (Monkstown) 81 76, David Travers (Carton House) 80 77, Bill Murray (Waterford Castle) 79 78, Shane McGagh (Claremorris) 79 78, Ryan Corry (Clandeboye) 79 78, Daire Creavin (Killeen Castle) 79 78, Rory Murphy (Dun Laoghaire) 79 78, Marc McCormack (Ashbourne) 79 78, Cathal Nolan (Galway) 78 79, Conor,, ,, ,  Wynne (Co. Sligo) 78 79, Robert Browne (Castle) 77 80, Darragh Walsh (Carton House) 77 80, Greg Milne (Faithlegg) 77 80

158 Eric Byrne (Birr) 82 76, Niall Hearns (Mountrath) 82 76, Andrew Mulholland (Castlerock) 82 76, Henry Clark (Shandon Park) 80 78, Charlie Denvir (Milltown) 78 80, Ross Mohan (The Island) 78 80, Daniel Molloy (Castle Barna) 77 81, Tommy Doran (Balbriggan) 76 82, Craig Bolger (Carlow) 76 82

159 Sean O'Regan (Edmondstown) 85 74, Jake Vickers (Balbriggan) 85 74, Lee O'Meara (Castle Barna) 83 76, William Small (Tandragee) 80 79, Stephen Kelliher (Killarney) 80 79, Jack Healy (Westport) 79 80, Charles McGoldrick (Enniscrone) 79 80, Paul Kelly (Glasson) 78 81, Ross Steedman (Courtown) 77 82

160 Scott Campbell (Greenacres) 80 80, George Morgan (Grange) 80 80, Eoin O'Hehir (Naas) 75 85

161 Mark Rea (Donaghadee) 83 78, Harry Walsh (Waterford Castle) 81 80, Jack Doherty (Westmanstown) 80 81, Andrew Magee (Powerscourt) 79 82

162 Jamie Larkin (Naas) 86 76, A.j. McCabe (Malahide) 85 77, Paul Twohig (Fota Island) 85 77, Edward Kennedy (Woodbrook) 83 79, Conor Flanagan (Tullamore) 82 80, Luke Donnelly (Callan) 82 80, Peter Cummins (Lurgan) 80 82, Bill Hannan (Carton House) 80 82, Gary Ward (Kinsale) 79 83, Jason Conway (Donegal) 77 85

163 Dayle Donohoe (Enniscorthy) 85 78, Michael Culhane (Limerick) 83 80, Sam Sweeney (Seapoint) 82 81, Cian Feeney (Co. Sligo) 81 82, Stewart McCaw (Royal Belfast) 80 83, Mark Travers (Carton House) 79 84

164 Paul Murphy (Rosslare) 85 79, Stephen Sharpe (Balbriggan) 83 81, Jack McGarry (Rosslare) 81 83

165 Garreth Hogan (St. Anne's) 84 81, John Corbett Jnr (Thurles) 82 83, Fergus Mc Cambridge (Cushendall) 82 83, Ben Murray (Castle) 82 83, Ciaran Smyth (Greenore) 79 86, Anton Brennan (Athenry) 76 89

166 Danny Leahy (Curragh) 82 84, Evan Hughes (Thurles) 81 85, Alan Riordan (Blarney) 80 86

167 Eoghan Collins (Laytown & Bettystown) 86 81, Conor Keown (Greystones) 83 84

169 Cillian Moloney (Fota Island) 88 81, Lee Birrell (Newbridge) 81 88

170 Peter Rolston (Shandon Park) 84 86, Paul Tobin (Cork) 81 89, Cian Hutchinson (Carton House) 79 91

171 Joe Joslin (Castle Barna) 88 83, Brendan O'Neill (Citywest Resort) 86 85

172 Aaron Bagnall (Millicent) 85 87

173 Daniel Curry (Coollattin) 94 79, Aaron Ryan (Thurles) 86 87

NR/WD Ronan Whelan (New Ross) 80 --,  Jason O'Reilly (Tramore) 89 --, Niall Kennedy (Tramore) WD, Dylan Brophy (Castleknock) WD