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Twin villages in County Cork, Ireland

The twin villages of Ballineen and Enniskeane, or Enniskean, in County Cork in Ireland are southwest of Cork City, on the R586 road. The linear settlement lies on the River Bandon between Bandon and Dunmanway. Enniskean derives its name from the Irish, Inis Céin, meaning 'island of Cian'. Cian married Sábh, the daughter of the High King of Ireland Brian Boru, and resided at Castlelands, Enniskean. Other Anglicised spelling variations include Enniskeen (used, for example, in some twentieth century census records). Enniskeane is commonly used in the name of the Roman Catholic parish, in the name of the local camogie club and routinely in Cork County Council publications. The combined census town has been labelled by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) as Ballineen/Enniskean and Ballineen Enniskean.

Ballineen belonged first to the Earls of Cork and later to the Earls of Bandon. Francis Bernard, 3rd Earl of Bandon improved the village in the mid 19th century by building a market house, courthouse, Wesleyan Chapel, Gothic church and two schools in the area. Ballineen held monthly fairs until the mid 1960s. The Church of the Immaculate Conception, in the parish of Enniskeane and Desertserges, of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cork and Ross, was built in 1871. Father Daniel Coveney had persuaded the then Duke of Devonshire to donate land for a new church. He donated £250 towards the costs of construction and gave 17 acres for the building of the church, a presbytery, stable, and grazing for the priest's horse. Located about a half mile apart, each village was served by separate train stations on the Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway, which opened in 1866. These two separate train stations were closed and replaced with a combined station, Ballineen and Enniskean railway station, which opened in 1891. A number of businesses, including a flax mill, were built close to the station, on the road between the two villages, ultimately "joining" the two. As of the 2016 census, it had a population of 692. and the Carbery cheese plant at Ballineen is the "largest cheese making facility" in Ireland and produces one quarter of all Irish made cheese, including the Dubliner Cheese brand.

The villages have a Gaelic Athletic Association club called St. Mary's GAA club and a camogie club called Enniskeane Camogie Club. The clubs have previously undertaken joint fundraising activities. The local association football (soccer) club, Riverside Athletic, plays its home games in Ballineen.