Gibbons, John wrote:
Oddly 'Poll Hapenny', an Irish set dance, seems sometimes to appear as Holy 
Ha'penny (I'll check tonight in Breathnach);  -
I never thought of this as a personal name but assumed a reference to a 1/2d tax per head...............maybe I have an odd way of thinking of things.

Ian



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