Corofin

Corofin is a village on the River Fergus in northern County Clare in Ireland and a Catholic parish by the same name.In 2011, the village had 689 inhabitants, up from 485 in 2006.NameThe name Corofin means "the white or foam-flecked ford" from the Finn Coradh, the earliest form of the name to be found in the literature: "fearann re hucht Finn Coradh".-A different translation is "Finne's weir".The town is sometimes spelled "Corrofin". Corofin also styles itself as "The Gateway to the Burren" or "The Angler's Paradise".GeographyLocationThe village is 12km north of the county town of Ennis, at the crossroads of the R470 and R476 regional roads. It is on the southern edge of the upland limestone region of The Burren. Corofin is in the civil parish of Kilnaboy in the Barony of Inchiquin.It lies in the Kilnaboy parish of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe. The parish has three churches, St Brigid's in Corofin, St Joseph's in Kilnaboy and St Mary's in Rath.Corofin is the birthplace of painter Frederick William Burton.