Corofin
Cora Finne
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Village
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Corrofin Castle
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  Corofin Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 53°25′00″N 8°52′48″W / 53.4167°N 8.88°W / 53.4167; -8.88 | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Connacht |
| County | County Galway |
| Elevation | 45 m (148 ft) |
| Population | 745 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
| Irish Grid Reference | M424434 |
CorofinorCorrofin (Irish: Cora Finne, meaning 'weir of (the) white one')[2] is a village and parishinCounty 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.[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]
GA057-089---- [..] Castle - tower house [..] Townland: Corrofin [..] According to the Annals of the Four Masters, it was built in 1451 by Lord Clanrickarde (Nolan 1901a, 26-7) and it was in the possession of Richard Burke in 1585
Corofin have become the first GAA team in either code to win a hat-trick of All-Ireland club titles
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