Boys at work and play on the road to Maam Cross

As the Parkers motored westwards into Connemara, the sights and scenes got very rural and rugged once again …..

The boys in this photograph are Pat Healy on the donkey, his brother John Healy, and Patrick Thornton on the right. The cottage in question is located about one mile west of Oughterard. In 1961 this cottage was the home of Pat and Barbara Healy, grandparents of the two boys in the photograph. It has now been modernised and extended to the rear by a great- grandson of Pat and Barbara.

Info from Leslie Lyons, 2021

                                                                        Frank Lyons (now sadly deceased) heading home 

                                                             Lough Corrib

Turf sods drying on the banks of Lough Bofin in the shadows of the Twelve Pins, County Galway

Ballynahinch Lake on the road to Clifden

Glendalough, near Recess