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About Corofin

Corofin, Cora Finne in Irish, is a village in County Clare, 37 km south of Galway. It stands on the R476. The map gives it 537 buildings and 4 named streets, with 37 places named on them in 47 kinds, and 210 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 16th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Where
37 km south of Galway, 192 km from Dublin
Position
52.9447° N, 9.0632° W, 30 m above sea level
Roads
R476
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
537 buildings, 4 streets, 37 named places in 47 kinds
Church and street, Corofin
Church and street, Corofin·Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kenny's drinking emporium, Corofin. Finer Ales, Fine tales. Inchiquin Inn, Main Street.
Kenny's drinking emporium, Corofin. Finer Ales, Fine tales. Inchiquin Inn, Main Street.·Sludge G, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Corofin in order

8 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the seventh century to 1991. That is not a history of Corofin, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

the seventh century1991Inchicronan AbbeyBurren National Park
The seventh century
  • the seventh centuryInchicronan AbbeyHistoric churches · 11 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The eighth century
  • the eighth centuryDysert O’DeaHistoric churches · 4.0 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The tenth century
The fifteenth century
The eighteenth century
The twentieth century

County Clare since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

286,39473,597127,93818412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 210 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R476 running through Corofin.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 3 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Corofin National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Corofin?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 37 km south of Galway and 192 km from Dublin, on the R476.
How big is Corofin?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 537 buildings, 4 named streets and 37 named places, which by building count makes it the 16th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.
What is there to see in Corofin?
210 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Clare Heritage and Genealogy Centre, Burren National Park Information Point and Lough Atedaun.
How do you get to Corofin?
3 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by Burren and Cliffs Explorer and Bus Éireann.
Has County Clare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 286,394 people in the county in 1841 and 127,938 in 2022.
537
buildings on the model
4
named streets
37
named places
47
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q1134428). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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