Kilgobnet Biddies: Kerry parish's unique way of celebrating St Brigid's Day

A group dressed in all white, known as the Kilgobnet Biddies, spend four nights calling into people’s homes to sing and dance in honour of St Brigid

The Kilgobnet Biddies, practising at Kilgobnet National School. Picture: Valerie O'Sullivan

We live in modern times, a digital age where sending Christmas cards, calling into your neighbour for a bowl of sugar or phoning someone’s landline are slowly becoming obsolete.

And yet in the small townland of Kilgobnet, near Killorglin in Kerry, an ancient tradition continues to honour St Brigid.