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Stoneybatter

Dublin 7. The derivation of the name Stoneybatter is interesting;

In the second century a 'royal road', one of the five great roads of Ireland, stretched from Tara in Meath to Glendalough in Wicklow, crossing the river Liffey at the Ford of the Hurdles (near the present-day Church Street Bridge). Since this road was paved, a rarity at the time, it was known in Gaelic as Bothar-na-gCloch, or 'Road of the Stones'. This subsequently changed to Stoney-Bothar and was later further corrupted to 'Stoneybatter'. Class.

 

This image is 8 photos merged with Autostitch. There's an imbalance in the colours between the shots due to using automatic settings...I'll do another version of this later I think.

 

Part of the Dublin set. See the Slideshow

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Uploaded on May 2, 2008
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