Coriondi

Early Irish population group

The Coriondi (Κοριονδοί) were a people of early Ireland, referred to in Ptolemy's 2nd century Geography as living in southern Leinster.[1]

Name

The stem *corio- ('army' or 'troop of warriors'), which is derived from Proto-Indo-European *kóryos ('army, people under arms'), also occurs in Gaulish and Brittonic personal and tribal names such as Coriosolites, Petrucorii, and Corionototae.[2]

Legacy

The Benntraige, a people dwelling in southern Ireland in pre-Christian times, might be a remnant of the tribe.[3] Eoin MacNeill identified another later Irish group, the Coraind, in the Boyne valley, as possibly the same people.[4]

Other possibly related names include the Corcu Cuirnd,[4] Cuirennrige and Dál Cuirind in early medieval Ireland, and in Britain, the Corionototae, known from an inscription in Hexham, Northumberland, and Corinion, the Brittonic name for Cirencester, Gloucestershire.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b T. F. O'Rahilly, Early Irish History and Mythology, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1946, pp. 33-34
  2. ^ J. Lacroix, Les noms d'origine gauloise, la Gaule des combats, Errance, Paris, 2003
  3. ^ MacKillop, James (2004), "Benntraige", A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acref/9780198609674.001.0001/acref-9780198609674-e-446, ISBN 978-0-19-860967-4
  4. ^ a b Eoin MacNeill, "Early Irish population groups: their nomenclature, classification and chronology", Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (C) 29, 1911, pp. 59–114
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