Corofin, County Galway should not be confused with Corofin, County Clare.
Corofin | |
Native Name: | Irish: Cora Finne |
Native Name Lang: | ga |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Ireland |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Ireland |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Ireland |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Connacht |
Subdivision Type3: | County |
Subdivision Name3: | County Galway |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Population As Of: | 2022 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population: | 745 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Utc Offset1: | +0 |
Timezone1 Dst: | IST (WEST) |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | -1 |
Coordinates: | 53.4167°N -8.88°W |
Elevation M: | 45 |
Blank Name: | Irish Grid Reference |
Corofin or Corrofin [2] is a village and parish in County Galway, Ireland, situated on the N17 road between Galway City and Tuam.
Corrofin 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]
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.
Corofin has an athletics team named Corofin AC and a football team named Corofin United.
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.