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What are your Cavan clúdóg memories at Easter?

Apr 19, 2025 17:06
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What are your Cavan clúdóg memories at Easter?

The tradition involves a fire being lit to mark Easter and young and old gathering around it.

A regular tradition at Easter in Co Cavan back in the day was the family ritual known as clúdóg.

Children would collect eggs and cook them outdoors across the rural landscape of the Breffni county to celebrate Easter Sunday.

The event was extremely popular in Cavan but did feature in some other counties across the country.

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The children in the area would call to local farms and households to sing dressed in bright colours in an effort to be given some eggs so this could use them in the clúdóg.

This was done around the country and went by different names, however it was very strong in Cavan and continues to this day in a smaller way.

The clúdóg is an Irish expression of the wider cultural significance of Easter eggs and the symbolic ties to this time of the year.

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The tradition involves a fire being lit to mark Easter and young and old gathering around the fire where they would boil and eat the hen and duck eggs.
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