Corofin, County Galway
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Corofin
Cora Finne | |
|---|---|
Village | |
_(geograph_1953877).jpg) Corrofin Castle | |
  Corofin Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 53°25′00″N 8°52′48″W / 53.4167°N 8.88°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Connacht |
| County | County Galway |
| Elevation | 45 m (148 ft) |
| Population | |
• Total | 745 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
| Irish Grid Reference | M424434 |
Corofin or Corrofin (Irish: Cora Finne, meaning 'weir of (the) white one')[2] is a village and parish in County Galway, Ireland, situated on the N17 road between Galway City and Tuam.
Corofin Castle is a mid-15th century tower house, now partly in ruins.[3][4] Corrofin's Roman Catholic church is dedicated to Saint Colman and was built in the 1840s to replace an earlier 18th century chapel.[5]
Sport
The local Gaelic football club, Corofin, have won five All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championships, most recently beating Kilcoo in the 2019-2020 Championship final. They also hold the record for most successive All-Ireland Club Championship titles, winning three-in-a-row between 2017 and 2020.[6] Their team of the 2010s is the most successful, winning the county title seven times, the Connacht Senior Football Championship four times and the All-Ireland Senior Club Championship five times.[citation needed]
Corofin has an athletics team named Corofin AC and a football team named Corofin United.[citation needed]
A Corofin native, Bishop Patrick Duggan of Clonfert, declined the honour of being the first patron of the GAA, giving the honour to the younger man, Archbishop Thomas Croke of Cashel.[citation needed]
