Coriondi
Sign in to saveThe 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.
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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.