There were (and may still be) Hourihanes in the townland of Knockskagh, north of Leap, in west Cork. My grand-father John Connolly was born there. His father's name was also John, and there was a John Connolly (not necessarily the same one) married to an Ellen Hourihane there. They had three children, according to the parish records, and then my great-grandfather, married to Bridget Regan, had ten children beginning in 1866. I've always wondered if perhaps the first wife, and possibly the children, all died (the first three children were all girls, and the names are repeated among the second batch of children, although in a different order--I know, the same names recur all the time in that area, so that's not conclusive). Sheila Connolly