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Subject: Re: Horrigan
Author: The LP   (Authenticated as arrowhead909)
Date: June 16, 2006 at 9:38:08 PM
Reply to: Horrigan by celticblood
1. Shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAragáin, a reduced form of Ó hAnradgáin (see Hanrahan).
2. (County Cork): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hArgáin ‘descendant of Argán’. 1 and 2 are related, but arose from variants that existed in Irish before Anglicization.

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