Innishannon or Inishannon () is a large village on the main

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– Bandon road ( N71) in

County Cork County Cork ( ga, Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns are ...

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. Situated on the

River Bandon The River Bandon ( ga, Abhainn na Bandan, from ''ban-dea'', meaning "goddess") is a river in County Cork, Ireland. The Bandon rises at Nowen Hill (one of the Shehy Mountains), to the north of Drimoleague. The river then flows to Dunmanway, be ...

, the village has grown due to its proximity to Cork city, and is now a

dormitory town A commuter town is a populated area that is primarily residential rather than commercial or industrial. Routine travel from home to work and back is called commuting, which is where the term comes from. A commuter town may be called by many o ...

for city workers.

History

Inishannon village is located at and developed around an important crossing-point on the

. Formerly controlled by the

de Barry family The de Barry family is a noble family of Cambro-Norman origins which held extensive land holdings in Wales and Ireland. The founder of the family was a Norman Knight, Odo, who assisted in the Norman Conquest of England during the 11th century. ...

, the area was used as a ferry point on the river from at least the early medieval period. Inishannon received a market and fair grant in 1256, and was given a royal charter in 1412. Writing in the mid-18th century, the antiquarian Charles Smith described Inishannon as "formerly walled and a place of some note".

Innishannon Tower Innishannon Tower is the ruin of a Huguenot chapel tower built beside the original church and graveyard in the town of Innishannon, County Cork. Tower There are two currently working churches in the town of Innishannon, one Catholic and one Ch ...

, the remains of a mid-18th century church, are built on the site the much earlier medieval parish church of Inishannon. In 1837, Inishannon village had a population of approximately 650 people. By the

2016 census of Ireland ''Census 2016'' in the Republic of Ireland was held on Sunday, 24 April 2016, to administer a national census. It was organised by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) and reported a total population of 4,761,865, or a 3.8% increase since the pri ...

, Innishannon had a population of 907, a near threefold increase in the 25 years since the 1991 census, when the village had 319 inhabitants.

Events

Innishannon Steam and Vintage Rally {{Unreferenced, date=November 2008 Innishannon Steam and Vintage Rally is held between Crossbarry and Innishannon (Irish: Inis Eonáin), a village on the main Cork– Bandon road (N71) in County Cork, Province of Munster, Ireland. The show takes pl ...

is held in Innishannon annually in June. This event continues on from the old Upton Steam Rally that was held on the old St. Patricks School grounds. The Innishannon Steam and Vintage Rally was formed in 1998, and attracts upwards of 1,000 entries and approximately 60,000 visitors every year. Since 1998, the rally's organisers have raised over one million euro for the

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Transport

The area was previously served by the

Cork and Bandon Railway Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway (CB&SCR), was an Irish gauge () railway in Ireland. It opened in 1849 as the Cork and Bandon Railway (C&BR), changed its name to Cork Bandon and South Coast Railway in 1888 and became part of the Great South ...

Upton and Innishannon railway station Upton and Innishannon railway station was on the Cork and Bandon Railway in County Cork, Ireland. History Located near the village of Upton, the station opened as Brinney on 1 August 1849. It was renamed Upton and Brinney on 1 November 1851. ...

opened in August 1849 and closed in April 1961. The village lies on the N71 secondary road between Cork and Bandon.

Innishannon parish

The parish of Innishannon stretches from the nearby Dromkeen to close to

Aherla Aherla () is a small village in County Cork, Ireland, with a population of approximately 570. It is in the townlands of ''Aherla More'' and ''Rathard''. Aherla is built on a limestone shelf typical of County Cork's ridges and valleys. The village ...

and over to

Kilmacsimon Kilmacsimon () is a small village and townland situated on the banks of the River Bandon in County Cork, Ireland. Historical records list ''Killmcsimon'' in the Calendar of Patent Rolls of James I dated 1615. The village has a pub and a commun ...

in the east. The parish includes the village of

Crossbarry Crossbarry () is a small village on the R589 regional road in Innishannon parish, County Cork, Ireland. It is about 20 km southwest of the city of Cork. The River Owenabue flows through the village. The West Cork Railway once ran through ...

. It also includes John Coleman's house in Togher Upper. The parish has four schools; Scoil Eoin in the village of Innishannon itself, Knockavilla to the north of the parish opposite St. Patrick's Church - the second church of the parish,

Gurrane Garranewaterig (), sometimes known as Gurranes or Gurrane, is a townland in the civil parish of Knockavilly in County Cork, Ireland. It lies to the north of Innishannon and Crossbarry, and is close to the main road to Killumney, Ovens, and Balli ...

National School (sometimes called Gurranes) near Crossbarry, and Castleack National School near the parish's boundary with Bandon.

Amenities

The village has two food stores, a

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, a dentist, a pharmacy, a butcher, a hairdresser, a café, a credit union, a fast food restaurant, a Chinese restaurant, a car sales garage and three public houses. Innishannon's

Gaelic Athletic Association The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; ga, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael ; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional ...

pitch, home to

Valley Rovers GAA Valley Rovers GAA Club is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in the parish of Innishannon in County Cork, Ireland. The club was formed in 1919 when two teams in the parish, Innishannon and Knockavilla, came together. The club fields teams in hu ...

club, is sometimes flooded because of its proximity to the river. The local

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

club is Innishvilla AFC.

People

Innishannon is home of the author Alice Taylor who wrote the bestselling ''To School Through the Fields'', and ''Quench the Lamp'', as well as many other novels and collections of poetry.

club has provided the national

organisation with two presidents, Seán McCarthy and Con Murphy.

References

{{Authority control Towns and villages in County Cork