Gangani

The Gangani (Γαγγανοι) were a people of ancient Ireland who are referred to in Ptolemy's 2nd century Geography as living in the south-west of the island, probably near the mouth of the River Shannon, between the Auteini to the north and the Uellabori to the south.^[1]^[2] There appears to have been a people of the same name in north-west Wales, as Ptolemy calls the Llŷn Peninsula the "promontory of the Gangani" (Γαγγανὤν ἄκρον).^[3]^[4]

References

↑ Ptolemy, Geography 2.1
↑ Philip Freeman, Ireland and the Classical World, University of Texas Press, 2001, pp. 73-74
↑ T. F. O'Rahilly, Early Irish History and Mythology, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1946, p. 2, 10
↑ Barry Cunliffe, Iron Age Communities in Britain, Routledge, 2005, p. 206

Ptolemy's Ireland

Peoples	Auteini Brigantes Cauci Coriondi Darini Eblani Erdini Gangani Iverni Manapii Nagnatae Robogdii Uellabori Uennicnii Uodiae Uoluntii

Towns	Dunon Eblana Iuernis Labiros Makolikon Manapia Nagnata Raiba Regia Regia Etera

Rivers	Argita Auoba Birgos Buuinda Dabrona Dur Iernos Libnios Logia Modonnos Oboka Rauios Senos Uidua Uinderios

Promontories	Isamnion Northern Robogdion Sacron Southern Uennicnion

Islands	Adros Ebuda Epidion Erimnos Limnos Malaios Mona Monaoida Rikina

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