Innishannon

{{see also|Innishannon Tower}}

Inishannon village is located at and developed around an important crossing-point on the River Bandon.{{cite web|url = https://explorewestcork.ie/villages/innishannon/ | website = explorewestcork.ie | title = innishannon | accessdate = 9 April 2022 }} Formerly controlled by the de Barry family, the area was used as a ferry point on the river from at least the early medieval period.{{cite book | last = Thomas | first = Avril | date = 1992 | title = The Walled Towns of Ireland, Volume 2 | place = Dublin | publisher = Irish Academic Press | page = 243 }} 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".{{cite book | last = Smith | first = Charles | date = 1750 | title = The ancient and present state of the County and City of Cork | place = Cork | publisher = Guy and Co. Ltd }} Innishannon Tower, the remains of a mid-18th century church, are built on the site the much earlier medieval parish church of Inishannon.{{cite web|url = http://www.southernstar.ie/News/Historic-hand-over-of-tower-and-cemetery-in-Innishannon-02122013.htm | publisher = Southern Star | title = Historic hand over of tower and cemetery in Innishannon | date = 2 December 2013 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20161023133844/http://www.southernstar.ie/News/Historic-hand-over-of-tower-and-cemetery-in-Innishannon-02122013.htm | archivedate = 23 October 2016 }}

In 1837, Inishannon village had a population of approximately 650 people.{{cite book | chapter-url = https://www.libraryireland.com/topog/I/Innishannon-Kinnalea-Cork.php | chapter = Innishannon | title = A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland | first = Samuel | last = Lewis | publisher = Lewis | date = 1837 }} By the 2016 census, Innishannon had a population of 1,043,{{cite web|url = http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2016/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST2016&Geog_Code=559F7EBF-88A1-4A55-8431-52E1A1FBA583#SAPMAP_T1_100 | work = Census 2016 | title = Sapmap Area - Settlements - Innishannon | publisher = Central Statistics Office | date = April 2016 | access-date = 18 August 2018 }} a near threefold increase in the 25 years since the 1991 census, when the village had 319 inhabitants.{{cite web|url = https://www.citypopulation.de/en/ireland/towns/cork/0498__innishannon/ | website = City Population | title = Innishannon (Ireland) Census Town | access-date = 20 March 2020 }} As of 2022, it had a population of over 1000 people.

Innishannon Steam and Vintage Rally 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 exhibits and approximately 60,000 visitors every year.{{cite web |title=Innishannon Steam and Vintage Rally |url=https://www.cancer.ie/ways-to-help/fundraise/community-events/innishannon-steam-and-vintage-rally |website=Irish Cancer Society |access-date=16 June 2024}} Since 1998, the rally's organisers have raised over one million euro for the Irish Cancer Society.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}

The area was previously served by the Cork and Bandon Railway.{{cite web|url = http://eiretrains.com/Photo_Gallery/Railway%20Stations%20I/Innishannon/IrishRailwayStations.html| website = eiretrains.com | title = Innishannon | accessdate = 9 April 2022 }} Upton and Innishannon railway station opened in August 1849 and closed in April 1961.{{cite web | title=Upton and Innishannon station | work=Railscot - Irish Railways | url=http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | access-date=25 November 2007 }}

The village lies on the N71 secondary road between Cork and Bandon. It is on several bus routes.{{cite web |title=Route 236 |url=https://www.buseireann.ie/inner.php?id=406&form-view-timetables-from=&form-view-timetables-to=&form-view-timetables-route=236&form-view-timetables-submit=1 |website=Bus Éireann |access-date=13 May 2024}}{{cite web |title=Route 236 |url=https://www.buseireann.ie/inner.php?id=406&form-view-timetables-from=&form-view-timetables-to=&form-view-timetables-route=237&form-view-timetables-submit=1 |website=Bus Éireann |access-date=13 May 2024}}{{cite web |title=Route 236 |url=https://www.buseireann.ie/inner.php?id=406&form-view-timetables-from=&form-view-timetables-to=&form-view-timetables-route=238&form-view-timetables-submit=1 |website=Bus Éireann |access-date=13 May 2024}}

File:Catholic Church Innishannon.jpg church was built in 1829]]

File:Church of Ireland Innishannon.jpg, an Anglican church, was built in 1856]]

{{see also|Christ Church, Innishannon}}

The parish of Innishannon stretches from the nearby Dromkeen to close to Aherla and over to Kilmacsimon in the east. The parish includes the village of Crossbarry. 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 National School (sometimes called Gurranes) near Crossbarry,{{cite web|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110203161953/http://gurrane.com/ | website = gurrane.com |archive-date = 3 February 2011 |url = http://gurrane.com/ | title = Gurrane National School}} and Castleack National School near the parish's boundary with Bandon.

The village has two food stores, a doctor's surgery, 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 pitch, home to Valley Rovers GAA club, is sometimes flooded because of its proximity to the river.{{cite web|url = https://www.joe.ie/sport/pics-this-gaa-pitch-in-cork-is-so-flooded-you-can-barely-see-the-crossbar-525269| website = joe.ie | title = This GAA pitch in Cork is so flooded you can barely see the crossbar| date = 30 December 2016 | accessdate = 16 December 2022 }}{{cite book |last= Taylor|first= Alice|date= 1992|title= The Village|location= Dingle, Co. Kerry|publisher= Brandon Book Publishers Ltd.|isbn= 0-86322-142-4}} The local soccer club is Innishvilla AFC.{{cite web | title=Innishvilla AFC| url=http://www.innishannon.net/soccer1.htm | website = innishannon.net | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070517202822/http://www.innishannon.net/soccer1.htm | archive-date =17 May 2007 }}

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.{{cite web|url = https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/alice-taylor-at-christmas-you-re-closer-to-things-you-don-t-understand-1.3339827 | publisher = Irish Times | website = irishtimes.com | title= Alice Taylor: "At Christmas you're closer to things you don't understand" | date = 28 December 2017 | access-date = 20 March 2020 }}

Valley Rovers GAA club has provided the national Gaelic Athletic Association organisation with two presidents, Seán McCarthy and Con Murphy.{{cite web|url = http://www.valleyrovers.com/content_page/34451/ | website = valleyrovers.com | title = About Us - Overview | access-date = 20 March 2020 }}

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