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TEXT ON PICTURE:
BOOTERSTOWN - BAILE-AN-BHOTHAIR. THE TOWN OF THE ROAD - In a roll of about 1435 the name of
this town appears in the Anglo-Irish form Ballybothr
(Baile-an-Bhothair, "Town of the road") of which the present name Booterstown (another form
of Batterstown) is a kind of half translation. In a roll of the 15th century the road leading from
Dublin to Bray is called Bothyr-de-Bree ("road of Bray"). It is very probable that the
Booterstown road and this Bray road were one and the same, and that both were a branch of the ancient
Slighe Cualann - one of the five great roads leading to Tara.
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