Páirc Uí Chaoimh

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**Páirc Uí Chaoimh**
Location
Area:	Ballintemple
County:	County Cork
Country:	Ireland
Facility Statistics
Broke Ground:
Opened	1976
Renovated
Surface :	Grass
Owner:	Cork GAA
Original Construction Cost:	IR£ 2million
Reconstruction Cost:
Architect:
Capacity
Capacity:	52,000
Dimensions
Dimensions:	144 m x 88 m

Páirc Uí Chaoimh is a Gaelic Athletic Association stadium in Cork in Ireland, where major hurling and Gaelic football matches are played. It currently has a capacity of 52,000 with one covered stand, an open-air stand and two terraces behind each goalpost. It was officially opened on June 6, 1976 by Con Murphy, then president of the GAA. It was the first stadium to be custom-built for the GAA, on the site of the former Athletic Grounds in Ballintemple.

It is named after Padraig Ó Chaoimh, recognised as the architect of the modern GAA. The main stand is named after Sean MacCarthaigh, Cork's second president of the GAA.

At the moment, the Cork County GAA board are hoping to buy the immediate area beside the stadium which belongs to the Munster Agricultural Society. When purchase is complete, the Cork County Board hope to begin restorations to the stadium to bring capacity to around 57,000. A second tier is to be added to the existing covered stand, while the rest of the stadium (both open terraces and the open stand) will also be roofed. The addition of floodlighting as in the case of Páirc Uí Rinn is also likely.

GAA Stadiums with capacity greater than 25,000
Breffni Park \| Casement Park \| Croke Park \| Cusack Park \| FitzGerald Stadium \| Gaelic Grounds \| Healy Park \| McHale Park \| Nowlan Park \| O'Moore Park \| Pearse Stadium \| Páirc Uí Chaoimh Semple Stadium \| St. Jarlath's Park \| St. Tiernach's Park \| Wexford Park