The St. Brigid's Peace Cross and St. Brigid's Fire, Kildare Town
With five young boys from Derry, Mullan founded in 1983 the St. Brigid’s Peace Cross and was instrumental in having St. Brigid’s Fire in Kildare permanently rekindled on 1 February 2006. The fire had burned in Kildare for over a thousand years before it was extinguished during the Protestant Reformation.
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