School: Gort an Iomaire (roll number 8379)
- Location:
- Gortanummera, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Sabhaois
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0057, Page 0014
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- Baptism local culturea. Unlucky for expectant mother to make or buy clothes for first child before birth, this is done by friend generally (errors) mother or near friend of expectant mother - this applies for first born.
b. If a child should die, no other child born afterwards to be called same name as dead child
C. Three bearing the same xtian name (direct descent) not lucky, i.e. grand.father, son, grand.child in same house
d. A person cannot be sponsor for two children in the same year, one of the children supposed to die
e. A married women (pregnant) not to be sponsor, if it should happen misfortune is supposed to follow woman + child yet unborn.
f. A child that does not cry at baptism supposed to get an early death.
g. Not lucky to refuse to be sponsor at Baptism (not lucky for child).
- Collector
- W. F. Savage
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Informant
- Uí Meoran
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Creggeen, Co. Galway
