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Houlihan
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUallacháin ‘descendant of Uallachán’, a personal name from a diminutive of úallach ‘proud’, ‘arrogant’.

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From my Irish name book (it lists all names currently in Ireland) ...
Leddin, -en: most common in Limerick, etc. In Irish is is Ó Loidedáin where it's assocaited with Co. Clare. It's related to Liddane and Lydon ...but then it stopped. So I went to my online Irish dictionary and the closest I could come up with was ..

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lodhainn
a pack (of dogs) a number: "a leash"; See lomhainn ...lomhainn
a leash, Irish comna, a cord (O'Cl.), Old Irish loman, funis, lorum, Welsh llyfan, Cornish louan, Breton louffan, tether: *lomanâ.

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I know Lydons here in Boston, but otherwise, it seems a bit obscure ...hope this helps ...