The place of origin in Cork of the Driscoll's may have also been from West Cork in the vicinity of Bantry Bay. The Driscoll family, children of Jeremiah Driscoll and Margaret o'Sullivan, (married in Ireland sometime before 1860) consisted of at least 5 daughters, and possibly sons (Michael and/or Matthew), most of whom came to the US, between 1882 and 1886. Mary Driscoll married Eugene Sullivan in the USA by 1888 and settled in Bayonne, New Jersey. Mary's sister Julia also may have settled there initially. She, or a cousin, also named Julia was godmother to Grandpa Jeremiah Sullivan in 1893.

Collateral lines within this Driscoll family include Margaret (Driscoll) and John Kachubeck (Staten Island, New York), Nellie (Ellen Driscoll) and Charles Randal (Rye, New York), Julia (Driscoll)and Patrick Fitzpatrick (New York City and later Winter Haven, Florida), and Nora (Driscoll) Blake (Media, Pennsylvania). Family lore says the surname Costello was also associated with the family and was connected with an ill-fated Armada which landed in Bantry in 1796.

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