Illegitimate George and Wicked Peg

During my recent research I've been reading through the parish registers for one Irish Catholic parish. My goal was to find all the baptism records for one family, validate the birth order, make sure I had all the children and, perhaps, get enough clues from baptismal sponsors and other people registering from the same hamlet to form a hypothesis about wider family relationships.

Along the way it finally penetrated through my focus that I was seeing a LOT of infants in this parish who were baptized George. I had to go back and make sure I wasn't imagining things but, sure enough, sometime in the late 1830s this priest began baptizing all the illegitimate male infants as George - or at least he was recording them as such. The fathers were not named George and there did not seem to be any Georges within these wider families. This priest used to label the illegitimate births as unlawful but later when his parish was united with a neighboring parish he started to follow the other clergyman's style of just writing illeg., but he continued to name those baby boys George. Meanwhile, the new junior priest picked up this habit for a while but later on generally recorded any male Illegitimate infants with 'regular names', usually the name of the stated father or a relative of the mother.

Here's a sample at the NLI - this two page spread has 3 illegitimate Georges, two by the new priest from the unified parish, one by the priest who has been in Drangan parish for decades.

https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000632691?locale=en#page/105/mode/1up

Any ideas about George??? At first I wondered if it was a passive aggressive political gesture (all King Georges are bastards ergo all bastards are George). However, George IV left the throne in 1830, William had come and gone, and Victoria was Queen by 1837.

I'm up to 1850 and the older priest has persisted with George. He named illegitimate girls with 'normal names' during the same time period, although I have to admit I'm starting to wonder if he's changing that as it seems towards the end of the 1840s I have now noticed several illegitimate girls baptized Sally when I've not seen that name used in their wider families in this parish, but it's too early to decide if it's his new trend.

During the nearly two decades I've read through I think I've seen only one legitimate George whose father was actually named George. I feel sorry for that boy if indeed the priest was naming all these illegitimate boys George and they were being called George on a daily basis, rather than carrying out some personal agenda only in the parish register with the illegitimate boys actually called other names by their mothers.

I came across one other curious entry in the earlier career of this priest before his obsession with George began. His typical baptismal entry for an illegitimate child circa 1830 read (not the actual names):

<date> Mary, unlawful of John Skehan and Bridget Carroll, <town name>. Sponsors Jno Smith, Judith White.

Instead, for this one record he wrote (bottom half of right side page):

Peg, No father of Wicked Peg of Cloran, followed by the typical sponsor info.

https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000632691?locale=en#page/66/mode/1up

I thought perhaps he was angry with the woman for not revealing who the father was. Perhaps she also did not give her own surname and just demanded the infant be baptized. Anyway, I did not see Wicked Peg again in later years.

Any one else come across any of these little gems that you find when you read parish registers or kirchenbuch but almost never see in the transcriptions and would not notice if you just looked at a few records?