Jimmy C, I have been around the oul Isle all of 65 years and I have never heard of the custom of "idle wheels" on St Brigid`s Day.
In Texas they might have cow-pat skimming competitions and up in New England this pratice is unheard off, and in Cornwall they may participate in Pastie eating competitions and in and around London they would find this custom very quaint, likewise in County Kerry they might stand a poor goat on a pedestal for three or four days while the locals have all the fun of the Fair, elsewhere in Ireland the goat would be a provider of good healthy milk.
Now somewhere else in the Emerald Isle they may have that "idle wheels" ritual, but in all of my time in and around County Armagh the wheels have always kept turning on St Brigid`s Day.
And God Bless all the lovely lasses of Moscow.