Scoil Bhride

• St.Brigid was born in Croghan.
• Her father was Dubhtach and her mother Brocessa. Her father was a pagan chief. She belonged to a group called Fothartha Airbreach. Her mother was a slave.
• St.Brigid was caring to people and animals.
• She gave a hungry stray dog a lamb chop that was for her fathers feast but another one appeared in time for the dinner.
• She also gave a beggar her fathers sacred sword.

• St.Brigid became a nun at Croghan Hill.
• She is known as Mary of the Gael.
• She recieved the veil from Bishop MacCaille on Croghan Hill.
• St.Brigid built a convent called the church of the oak in Kildare.
• A cross of rushes is linked to Brigid as the shamrock is linked with St.Patrick.
• She died in Kildare but her bones now rest beside St.Patrick and Colmcille at Downpatrick in County Down.

Illustrations by 1st and 2nd class pupils