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About Anascaul

Annascaul or Anascaul is a village on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. It is situated 32.9 kilometres east of Tralee on the N86 Tralee - Dingle national secondary road near its junction with the R561 regional road to Castlemaine and Farranfore leading to nearby Inch Strand.

Anascaul Lake is situated inland and just above the village. There is an established local pottery and it is also known for Anascaul black pudding produced locally. The historic Ballinclare horse fair has been revived and takes place yearly again.

'The name of the village, Annascaul, is derived from the ford at that point where the road to Dingle leads across the river Scál and is a corruption of the word, Átha-na-Scáil, meaning, in English, the River of the Hero, and the hero being Cuchulainn whose grave is reputed to be on the side of the mountain above Droumavalla, north of Annascaul... There was a controversy in the "Leader" years ago about the meaning of the word Annascaul and I remember Dr. Douglas Hyde,"Beirt Fhear" and Mr. D.P. Moran, editor of the "Leader", visited Annascaul to carry out investigations locally into it.

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