Cora Finne

The name Corrofin, also commonly spelled Corofin, derives from the Irish Cora Finne (or Coradh Finne). The Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie) breaks this down as cora (weir, stone-fence, or ford) combined with fionn or finne (white). The earliest attested form of the name appears in the 15th-century Topographical Poem of Ó hUidhrín as 'Finn Coradh', translated as 'the white or foam-fle...