An Briotás

Brittas is a townland in the Barony of Arklow, within Dunganstown Civil Parish in County Wicklow. The name derives from the Old French bretesche or bretèche, a term for the wooden parapets and defensive structures built by Anglo-Norman settlers during the late 12th and early 13th centuries, typically atop motte-and-bailey castles. Such bretasche structures served as auxiliary fortifications, in...