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. The local soccer 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. Valley Rovers GAA club has provided the national Gaelic Athletic Association organisation with two presidents, Seán McCarthy and Con Murphy. See also List of towns and villages in Ireland Market Houses in Ireland References Towns and villages in County Cork