Open chords on Irish folk tunes - and avoiding big left hand jumps

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On Irish tunes like St Anne's Reel (folk forms often which have simple major chords, with a few minor chords) it is nice to have full chords but with open chord sound.  Low bass note and high melody supported by closer 3rd note.  


Here is a proposed structure for open chords on Moschino system: Note chord voicings here are generally 1-5-3 position chords (2nd inversion with root).
 
Note on fingering and hand movement. Generally 1-5-3 major chords are fingered with 5-3-2 fingering which is reachable and consistent across the tune. 

Root is D, which is an easy to find position.   
G is up 4th (neighbor on 4th-5th diagonal)
A is chromatically up full step from G so 2 steps chromatic diagonal
Emin is down 4th from A


Note that the only real "jump" is G-A and A-D (which is actually the biggest jump)
Of course 7th chords can also be easily fingered as in other tunes.

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