List of Celtic place names in Galicia

The only type of settlement known in Galicia during the Iron Age are forts and fortified towns (castros) built in hills and peninsulas.

A series of place-names have been attributed to them:[71] There also existed a village called Bretonos near the city of Lugo, in the Middle Ages.

The most frequent element among the Celtic toponyms of Galicia[4] is *brigs,[107] meaning 'hill, high place', and by extension 'hillfort'.

Usually it is the second element in composite toponyms ending in -bre, -be or -ve,[108] being cognate of Irish Gaelic brí 'hill', with the same origin: Proto-Celtic *-brigs > -brixs > -bris.

Some of these toponyms are:[109] Another frequent type of Celtic toponyms in Galicia are those whose names are formed as a superlative,[152] either formed with the suffix -mmo- or with the composite one -is-mmo-: Other villages and parishes have names with pre-Latin, probably Celtic, origin, specially in the coastal areas of A Coruña and Pontevedra provinces and all along the valley of the Ulla river.

Ancient (bracketed) and modern places in the Iberian Peninsula which have names containing the Celtic elements -brigā or -bris < -brixs 'hill, hillfort '
The Roman lighthouse known as 'Torre de Hércules', and in the past as 'Faro Bregancio', in A Coruña .
Doors to the 'castro' of San Cibrao de Lás, ancient Labiobriga or Lansbriga .
The Miño river as seen from the oppidum of Santa Tegra, A Guarda .
The Tambre river, ancient Tamaris .
'Tres Bispos' peak, in Lugo province, in the westernmost extreme of the ancient Vindius mountains.
Waterfalls at the mouth of the Xallas river