Historic town

The National Monuments Service's description

In a wooded valley on the N bank of the Bandon River, at the head of the estuary leading into Kinsale Harbour. Smith (1750, vol. 1, 211-13) refers to Inishannon as 'formerly walled and a place of some note, as appears by the foundations of several castles and large buildings discovered in it.' Thomas (1992, vol. 2, 243) noted that Inishannon, which was part of the de Barry lands, was from medieval times a ferry point on the Bandon River and received a market and fair grant in 1256. Eighteenth-century houses (vol. 2, 5931-2) front onto Main Street. There are now no recognisable upstanding remains of a town wall here. The site of the medieval parish church of Inishannon at the E end of the town, is occupied by the ruins of a mid-18th-century church (vol. 2, 5901).

The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).

Date of upload: 22 December 2009

References

Power, D., Byrne, E., Egan, U., Lane, S. and Sleeman, M. 1994 Archaeological inventory of county Cork, vol. 2: East and South Cork. Dublin. Stationery Office.

Thomas, A. 1992 The walled towns of Ireland, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.

Smith, C. 1750 (New Edition 1815) The ancient and present state of the County and City of Cork, 2 vols. Cork. Guy and Co. Ltd.