Gail Dennehy

Between 1952 and 1971, Dr. Albert E. Casey hired an army of researchers to investigate the genealogy of the Casey family in Ireland. Two of the oldest finds in “O'Kief, Coshe Mang, Slieve Lougher and the Upper Blackwater in Ireland” were the early seventeenth century wills of William and James Casey in County Cork.

Margaret of Cork, is fictional, Margaret Bourke Casey was not. William Casey's widow was evicted from her home. Her older sons went west and settled around Skibbereen, Cork. She and her other children moved to County Kerry, near Castleisland. Some became teachers, while others farmed the land. Margaret gets credit for being the ancestress of all the Caseys of Kerry,