Hi. I’m Marie and you are very welcome to HopsSkipsandJumps. If you are reading this you are probably like me – happiest when planning your next trip (or 2… or 3….!) I’m a very unlikely victim of a travel bug. Firstly, the gene pool – my parents were of that generation that only […]
Malahide Castle, Dublin, 29th May….. A beautiful example of tree-stump carving… ( I must admit I was flying past and reckoned I’d look up the sculptor etc. later but I can’t find any info) The rules for Brian’s Last on the Card prompt are…….. 1. Post the last photo on your SD card or last photo on […]
Location! Location! Location! St. Ciarán certainly had an eye for prime real estate, didn’t he! Clonmacnoise (The Meadow of the Sons of Nós) was ideally placed at the crossroads of two major medieval traffic routes – the mighty Shannon River and the Slí Mór (The Great Way) which traversed the country from east to west. […]
John Canny was a hermit who lived in a cave on the Isle of Doagh in County Donegal. He had worked in the US for many years but was unfortunately robbed of everything on his way home to Ireland (story goes that he was robbed by a black haired woman and he hated the sight […]