"It is a bit like Halloween" explains Clodagh Doyle, Keeper of the Irish Folk Life collection at the National Museum of Ireland - Country Life in Turlough.
Watch the video to see the stunning variety of beautiful Brigid's crosses at display in the exhibition of the National Museum just outside Castlebar.
And find out, why the four-armed cross we are so accustomed to see, is actually not the "original" St. Brigid's cross.
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