Parish in the centre-east of the Isle of Man, surrounding much of Douglas and extending inland along the valleys of the Dhoo and Glass.

The parish church and churchyard preserve an important collection of carved stones. The Oter Cross at Braddan carries a runic inscription naming Utr, and its ornament was repeatedly compared by nineteenth-century antiquaries with the large Joalf Cross at Kirk Michael and other Manx monuments.

Another inscribed fragment was found in Braddan churchyard and published with the Manx Society's studies of runic sculpture. The designs include interlace, triquetra and animal ornament characteristic of the Island's Norse-Christian stones.

The parish also contained one of the better-known old bridges. An historical account described the bridge over the dark water at Kirk Braddan as a stately structure. The Dhoo and Glass valleys provided the natural routes from the interior towards Douglas, and the expansion of the town eventually spread deeply into the older rural parish.

Braddan retained older beliefs well into the nineteenth century. Joseph Train recorded that in early 1843, near Union Mills, the carcass of an animal believed to have died through witchcraft was burnt by the roadside so that the first person to pass after the fire was lit might be identified as the witch or wizard.

The name Braddan was connected by older antiquaries with St Brendan or Brandanus.