In Ronald Huttons most excellent and weighty book 'The Stations of the Sun' he discusses the different forms of the Brigid crosses and acknowledges that they may have been adopted from the ancient past but to balance this he states that the first record of crosses comes from 1689 when they were associated with the feast of Corpus Christi "and there linkage with St Brigid's Eve was not noted until 1728". He does however acknowledge "the dearth of information on Irish popular customs before the 18th century".