Clúdóg - Batch of Easter Eggs
Beannachtaí na Cásca oraibh! Happy Easter to you All. While researching Easter I found the word clúdóg and variations of it pop up over and over on Dúchas.ie. This custom seems to have been a kids only Easter party! Here are two quotes about it:
“We went down the long field to hold our cludóg. We had it under the lone bush and had a fire of sticks placed there a few days before. The girls joined in and brought a kettle, mugs, milk, tea and sugar. We usually had a "join" that is each paid a halfpenny a piece and bought a loaf… Well we lit the fire, boiled the eggs and made the tea and ate our cludóg in grand style under the lone bush. When it was over we danced, sung and played games until we were worn out, then off home to bed”
“Children had a clúdóg on the top of a hill. Each child brought a "tinny", egg, and spoon. A fire was lit under a big tree and children were warned never to light it under a "poplar" "for a popular is very treacherous." Some fairly well to do person in the neighbourhood perhaps a shopkeeper gave the children currant cake, tea and sugar for the clúdóg. After the clúdóg, children played games e.g. Ring-a-ring a rosies”
Clúdóg - Batch of (Easter) eggs.