Brigid learned many of her songs from the members of her extended family including her mother, maiden name Mary Meehan.
To varying degrees, all of her eight children (Maureen, Bridie, Phyllis, Joe, Annie, Michael, Tina, but especially Paddy) loved and sang their mother's songs.
He recalled learning ‘As I Roved Out’, later recorded by Planxty and many others, in these terms: "Meadow Mane rippled with corncrakes and scythe steel sang to whetstone.
She put aside the hoops that held the cloth, where her needle and thread had wrought the most exotic rosebuds, open flowers and intricate patterns, and wove with her voice arabesques of sound that bested the embroidery.
"[3] In 1952, when her son Paddy was contacted by Seán O Boyle and Peter Kennedy regarding being recorded for the BBC, he persuaded the folk collectors to travel to his home district of Mulleek in north-west Fermanagh where, over two days, he arranged to have as many of the local musicians and singers as possible lined up and ready to go.
Steeleye Span also sang ‘Captain Coulston’ and on their 1971 album Ten Man Mop recorded another song learned from Brigid ‘The Wee Weaver’.
She is buried with her husband Patrick in the graveyard at the back of Mulleek Church, near Castlecaldwell overlooking Lough Erne.