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and tlie Brigautes entered upon tlie only vacant portion of it. In 

 this situation, tlie Concangi were forced to cross the central parts of 

 the island and the dominions of the Scoti, and settle upon the W. 

 sea ; and with both, or about the same period, came perhaps the 

 Auterii.''^**- The Brigantes took possession of a great part of Wa- 

 terford, and probably the S. parts of Tipperary, Kilkenny, and 

 Carlow. On the W. they were bounded by the Daurona or Da- 

 brona of Ptolemy, the Saveranus of Giraldus Cainbrensis, abhan 

 mor or Blackwater ; and on the E, by the Eirgus or Brigus, abhan 

 Breoghan, which, being composed of the waters of three confluent 

 rivers, the Siuir, Feoir and Berblia or Mear-ow, constitutes the 

 present haven of Waterford.'"^- The name of this tr be is preserved 

 in that of the river Breoghan, corrupted from Brighan, and also in 

 the denomination of the country, which is called Ibh Breoghain, 

 and of its inhabitants, who were nominated Slioclu Breoghain ; 

 and hence the family name of its chiefs O Breoghan, which is cor- 

 rupted into O Brain. 



Within their territory, in the county Kilkenny, we find a memorial 

 of the Druids in the name of a well called tiobruid na udroith, the 

 Druid's well ; over which is built a singular cell. Additional evi- 

 dence of their residence in Ireland, contrary to the opinion of Mr. 

 Ledwich, and of the emigration of this tribe from Britain, is ex- 

 hibited, beside other places, on the summit of Tory hill, called 

 Sliebh Grerne, or the hill of the sun. Here, in a circular space 

 covered with stones, on one of which, composed of siliceous brec- 

 cia and placed over two or three unequal ones, is the inscription 



BKLI DIUOSE 



158. Eadem, p. 24.3. See p. 46 of this essay. Richard, p. 51. A. M. 4050, ' circa hcec 

 tempoia, relictii Britannia, Cangi & Brigantes in Hibcrniam commigiarunt, seilesque ibi 

 posuerunt' ; and p. 42, Ostorius. 



159. Hist, of Mane, p 229, and Camden, p. 283, 300. 



