BRIGANTES
Eth. BRIGANTES (Βρίγαντες).
1.
A people of Britain, the subjects of Cartismandua, reduced by Ostorius, occupants of the parts between the Humber and Tyne. (Tac. Ann. 12.32, Hist. 3.45, Agr. 17; Ptol. 2.3.16.)
2.
Of Ireland, mentioned by Ptolemy (2.2.7) as the most south-eastern Hibernians: their probable locality being the county Kilkenny. [R.G.L]