Accommodation annascaul

In the village is the "South Pole Inn", once lived in by Thomas Cream (born 1877) who accompanied Scott on his expedition to the South Pole. Minard Castle, 3 miles (5km) south of Annascaul, is said to have been built by the Knight of Kerry and is said to have been built by the Knight of Kerry and is the largest fortress in the peninsula. Thomas Ashe, one of the patriots of the 1916 Rising, was born in 1885 in the village of Kinard East.