Brigid arrived on a grassy ridge at the western end of the gorse-covered Curragh plain, with a group of other nuns, for whom she had more or less assumed the role of leader.
They built a small oak church on this ridge. The Irish word for church is "cill" and the old Irish word for oak is "daire". Put the two words together and you get Cill Dara or Kildare, after which the whole county is named.
A church is all very well, but Brigitte also needed land for it.
So she met the King of Leinster, who told her she could have as much land as the cloak on her back could cover.
It was then that Brigit spread her cloak, gave a corner to four holy virgins each and ordered them to run as far as they could in four different directions.
It turned out to be a magical cloak that stretched far across Leinster. (where she unraveled her cloak and used the resulting thread to demarcate the domain)
And so the king granted the new church of Brigit a huge estate, including the fertile meadows of Curragh, where their sheep and cattle could now graze.
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St. Brigit's Cathedral was built on the exact spot where our eponymous heroine built her wooden church.
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Surrounded by a high stone wall, the cathedral complex also features part of a high cross, as well as an imposing round tower built in the days when the Vikings were on the rampage.
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Between 835 and 998, they attacked St. Bridget's Cathedral sixteen times.
And inside the cathedral complex are the remains of the place where an eternal fire burned in memory of "the glorious Brigit".
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In the 12th century, the Cambro-Norman chronicler Giraldus Cambrensis describes how this flame was cultivated by 19 nuns.
Surrounded by a circular hedge, it was an area where only women could enter. If an "imprudent" man tried to enter, Giraldus warned that he "would not escape divine vengeance".
A medieval archer who jumped over the hedge and blew into the fire lost his head and drowned. Another intruder found that "his leg and foot immediately atrophied".
Unfortunately, such threats didn't stop the Reformation from putting out the fire when they destroyed St. Brigid's Abbey in the 1530s.
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The Solas Bhríde center opened in 2015 and is shaped like a Brigitte cross. Sister Phil, co-founder of the center, believes that the saint herself is gaining more and more contemporary importance.
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"Our center is about the legends of the saint and how she speaks to us today. Many of her stories speak of her concern for the earth and the land, as well as our climate. She also sought justice for the poor, which is very popular today.
"She was known as a peacemaker, a hostess and a woman of deep reflection. There's always a part of her that speaks to us.