Corofin or Corrofin () is a village and
parish
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in
County Galway
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,
Ireland
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, situated on the
N17 road between
Galway City
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and
Tuam
Tuam (; , meaning 'mound' or 'burial-place') is a town in Ireland and the second-largest settlement in County Galway. It is west of the midland Region, Ireland, midlands of Ireland, about north of Galway city. The town is in a civil parishe ...
.
History
Corofin Castle is a mid-15th century
tower house
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, now partly in ruins. Corrofin's Roman Catholic church is dedicated to Saint Colman and was built in the 1840s to replace an earlier 18th century chapel.
Sport
The local
Gaelic football
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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. Their team of the 2010s is the most successful, winning the county title seven times, the
Connacht Senior Football Championship
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four times and the All-Ireland Senior Club Championship five times.
Corofin has an
athletics team named Corofin AC and a
football team
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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.
Notable people
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Daithí Burke, Gaelic footballer and hurler
*
Kieran Fitzgerald, Gaelic footballer
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Eileen Costello O'Shaughnessy, taxi driver who was murdered in 1997
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Enda Scahill, musician
See also
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List of towns and villages in Ireland
References
Towns and villages in County Galway
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