 On recording labels his surname is recorded as O'Keeffe (and incorrectly) O'Keefe.Padraig was born to John Leahy O'Keeffe of Glountane, a schoolmaster and skilled dancer, and Margaret O'Callaghan of Doonasleen ("Doon"), Kishkeam, County Cork, the latter of whom played fiddle and concertina.In that part of the country it was then a tradition to send the eldest son to his maternal grandparents to be raised.