The Coriondi (Κοριονδοί) were a people of early Ireland, referred to in Ptolemy's 2nd century Geography as living in southern Leinster.
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.
Legacy
The Benntraige, a people dwelling in southern Ireland in pre-Christian times, might be a remnant of the tribe. Eoin MacNeill identified another later Irish group, the Coraind, in the Boyne valley, as possibly the same people.
Other possibly related names include the Corcu Cuirnd, 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.
References
- ^ T. F. O'Rahilly, Early Irish History and Mythology, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1946, pp. 33-34
- J. Lacroix, Les noms d'origine gauloise, la Gaule des combats, Errance, Paris, 2003
- 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
- ^ 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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