Annascaul
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Annascaul or Anascaul () is a village on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. It is situated 32.9 kilometres west 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. The village was recorded as having a population of 291 at the time of the 2022 census.
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Annascaul
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ga
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- annascaul village.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Main Street
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ireland
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Ireland
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Ireland
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Munster
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- County Kerry
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2022
- Settlement.population_total
- 291
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Kerry
- Elevation
- 15
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Annascaul village.jpg
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- Commons category
- Annascaul
- located in/on physical feature
- Dingle/Daingean Uí Chúis
- Irish Grid Reference
- peat cutting
- native label
- Abhainn an Scáil
- historic county
- County Kerry
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Placename
- Geography
- History
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Annascaul or Anascaul () is a village on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. It is situated 32.9 kilometres west 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. The village was recorded as having a population of 291 at the time of the 2022 census.
==Placename== Different suggestions as to the original meaning of the name include "Scáil's River" (Scáil Ní Mhúirnáin is a character in a local legend), "River of the Shadows", or "Ford of the Heroes".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Annascaul” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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