Brigantes

BRIGANTES(Βρίγαντες).

1. A people of Britain, the subjects of Cartismandua, reduced by Ostorius, occupants of the parts between the Humberand Tyne. (Tac. Ann. 12.32, Hist. 3.45, Agr. 17; Ptol. 2.3.16.)


2. Of Ireland, mentioned by Ptolemy (Ptol. 2.2.7) as the most south-eastern Hibernians: their probable locality being the county Kilkenny. [R.G.L]