Robert French - Cherry Bounce, Galway, Ireland

Completely stealing the title for this one from Little Women where Amy uses the term that the March family's household helper, Hannah, used for Mr. Laurence's Char-a-Banc...This gorgeous touring car is pictured outside a hotel at Leenane (sometimes aka Leenaun), Co. Galway. From other photos in this sequence, the reg. no. of this vehicle is either IM 180 or 181. The touring car was provided by Commercial Cars in Luton, and the tour itself was in conjunction with the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland Company, and the route was Clifden-Westport...Said this morning that if anyone could identify the hotel, it would make an old Library very happy... Niall McAuley ( gnmcauley/ ) did just that with his identification of this hotel as the Leenane Hotel!..Date: Circa 1907..NLI Ref.: L_ROY_06768 ( L_ROY_06768 )