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Conor Casey

Irish Travelers of Aiken County

By Daniel J. Casey and Conor Casey

September/October 1994

September 23, 1994 by Leave a Comment

By the mid 1960s more than three hundred Irish Traveler families had settled on a fifty-acre parcel of land that they called Murphy Village. They named the site for Father Joseph Murphy, a parish priest and advocate who started the settlement for Travelers and guided it for twenty years before his transfer in 1968. What makes Murphy Village unique is that it's a continent away … [Read more...] about Irish Travelers of Aiken County

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