 Annamoe is a breeding stronghold of the great spotted woodpecker, Ireland's newest species.Annamoe is home to a number of people associated with film, music, and writing including film director John Boorman, U2 rock group manager Paul McGuinness, actor Daniel Day-Lewis, and musician Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains.Actor, writer, and chef Paolo Tullio and the writer John Millington Synge also lived there, as did former Irish president Erskine Childers, who is buried at Derrylossery Church.