O’Donovan is doubtless correct when he explains Cotts as ‘cottages or huts’ (5). As observed above (see COOLCOTS (#54540), par. Carrick), the English dialect word cott “cottage” also occurs in other place-names in what was the English Pale, e.g. Coldcut (D) and Colecot (D). (In regard to English-language place-names and Yola, the now-defunct English dialect of South Wexford, see Introduction.)

The Irish form Na Botha is a translation (cf. BPP p.47).

[It has been stated elsewhere that this place-name ‘may be either of Viking or Anglo-Norman extraction’ ([details to be added]). However, as English has been the dominant language in south Wexford over the past 800 years — since the early days of the Anglo-Norman colony — the place-name Cotts, readily derivable from English, cannot be used as an indicator of Norse settlement.]

[Excerpt from Logainmneacha na hÉireann IV: Townland Names of County Wexford, 2016, with additional commentary in square brackets [ ].]