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There are many stories and legends relating to Brigid's birth and early years. Brigid,
we are told, was born around 453 AD. Although one story suggests Faughart, Co. Louth, as
her place of birth, there is a strong local tradition in Kildare that Brigid was born in
Umeras, about five miles northwest of Kildare town. Her father, Dubthach, was a local
chieftain whose descendants may now becalled Duff or Duffy. Her mother, Broicsech, was a
bondmaid in Dubthach's household and tradition holds that she was a Christian.
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