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Or the inhabitants of this coaft, Ptolomy obferves, 
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Tlapoimouer dé ray mAeupav pera Toug Ousddraopoug Ourepvars 
"Yep vg Ouodiees, 
Koi avarorwrepot, Bpyavres. 
Ourepvo: Pal. Tovepos, Ware thinks them the inhabitants of Def- 
mond. They being denominated Jberni, Iberi, and Fuériui, 
were moft probably the 24h Haragh of the Irifh, the ancient 
inhabitants about Bear Haven, and the fouthern parts of the 
county of Kerry, and a part of the fouthern. Ernai. ; 
Ovodiax, Ware makes thefe the ancient inhabitants of the coun- 
ties of Cork, Limerick and Tipperary. The ancient name of 
‘this diftri€t is loft; they were probably the inhabitants of 
Corcaluighe, containing the fouthern parts of the prefent 
‘county of Cork, 
Bpiyavrec. Ware makes thefe the inhabitants of the counties of 
Carlow, Kilkenny, and the Queen’s County. But no fuch name 
is mentioned by the Irifh. The Romans therefore ‘probably 
denominated them from their neighbouring river Brigus or 
Bargus, tf they did not miftake Brigus for Brigantes, a nation 
in Britain. They feem to be the ancient inhabitants of the 
county of Waterford, called by the Irifh Ay Breoghan, and the 
inhabitants Breaghnach or Breoghnach, that is Breathnach or 
' Britons. Admitting therefore that they extended farther in- 
land, they might be the aborigina/s from Britain, before the 
¢ arrival 
