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One version of the origin of the name ‘Hop’ Island is its association in the mid 1700s with a Huguenot family and a Monsieur Lawrence De La Main, who had estates in France, and a dance school in Cork’s Rochestown, at this location.
The use of the word hop, after all, has a pedigree preceding the hops, Lindy hops and hip-hop moves of the 20th century.
