 Living in the same townland as Padraig's grandparents was his uncle Callaghan "Cal" O'Callaghan.Cal had emigrated to the United States as a young man and had picked up various contracts as a buffalo hunter on the Great Plains for railroad companies, as well as one logging in Ohio.A fiddler himself, Cal is said to have worked with numerous Scottish immigrants who left major influences on him, among them tunes and technique.