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Annestown is a small and very quiet village in Co.Waterford. Little more than a short, colourful street of cottages on a hill it nevertheless inspires generations of families to keep returning – for the sea, for the air and for the peace. The beach at Annestown offers, when the tide is out, an expanse of golden sand, rock-pools and a gentle gradient which makes for one of the safest bathing beaches around. In the rougher winter months it attracts a hardier band of surfers!

Very unusually for Ireland Annestown has no pub. Nor does it boast a shop or any commercial enterprise save for one bed and breakfast in the village and two more a little further west.