St Bridget, the Irish saint who came to the Isle of Man to take the veil, and to whom the Nunnery at Douglas was ascribed.

The Manx tradition puts her at Maughold. It was in his retirement there that St Bridget, one of the tutelar saints of Ireland, came to receive the veil of virginity from his hands, and the Manx writers cite her nephew Cogitosus, who wrote her life, as their authority for it.

The priory followed from the visit. The Nunnery at Douglas was said to have been built by St Bridget when she came over for the veil, and the Prioress of Douglas was a Baroness of the Island with the privileges that went with it: she could hold the Lord's Court for her own tenants and try them by a jury of her own tenants, as the steward of the Abbey lands still could in the seventeenth century. The antiquaries thought the situation of the Nunnery much the pleasantest in the Island, and one of them wondered whether the same ground had been the seat of the Druidesses described by Mela before she founded her house there.

Her day was kept in the Island until modern times. Laa'l Breeshey, the eve of the first of February, was observed in honour of the Irish lady who came over to receive the veil from St Maughold, and the custom was to gather a bundle of green rushes and stand with them at the door. The weather sayings reckon two-thirds of the year's bad weather to fall between St Thomas's day and St Bride's.