Local History - Innishannon.

This translates as "Little road to the ford". A ford is a shallow place in a river where people could cross - before the advent of bridges. Innishannon lay on the main commercial route from Cork harbour to West Cork.This was the first point where people and goods could cross the river on their journey westwards.

The building of Bandon Bridge in 1610 by Boyle, first earl of Cork, saw the decline in use of Innishannon as a crossing point.