[an error occurred while processing this directive] THE BLOODS OF COROFIN
Co. Clare, Ireland.

Descended from Neptune Blood and Isabella Pullein.

Neptune was a great grandson of Edmund Blood of Makeney. For Neptune's ancestors, see The Bloods of Kilnaboy.

From the website of The Association of the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, Ireland:

The Blood Monument in the Kilfenora Churchyard, reads:

Man as the flower groweth up and passes away as a shadow. Thus silently have passed even the dear pledges of love to parents whose sorrowful hearts are tortured with grief. If you would seek the names of these and the dates of their death, lo! the lines which are below tell thee all- Namely - NEPTUNE, son of the REVD. NEPTUNE BLOOD, Dean of Finebor [Kilfenora?], and his wife ISABELLA BLOOD, otherwise PULLEIN, who died on the 1st July, 1683, aged 33; also ELIZABETH B[LOOD], who died 21 September, 1688, aged 6. JOHN B. who died 17 May, 1694, aged 5 years; also the aimable DEBORA B, who died 5th of June, 1695, aged 9. Also THEODOSIA B., who died 20 April, 1699, aged 13 years; also the dutiful and clever youth WILLIAM B., who died 13th March, 1699, aged 16; also LEPEDUS NEPTUNUS, who died 30 day of March, 1700, in the 8th year of his age, and these are buried here below.

Corofin

Location of Corofin, Co. Clare, Ireland

  1. Rev. Neptune BLOOD,
    b. Abt 1640-1644, Kilnaboy Castle, Co. Clare, Ireland;
    d. 30 Mar 1716
    m. Isabella PULLEIN,
    daughter of Samuel Pullein, Archbishop of Tuam, and Frances (family name unknown).
    b. 1650;
    d. 1 Jul 1683.
    Bindon Blood's book states: "There is a tradition that he was staying at Kilnaboy Castle at the time of the battle of Aughrim, between the Williamites and Jacobites in 1691, and that after the battle a wounded Jacobite fugitive was given food and allowed to rest in the guardroom at the castle. The Dean went there to question him; and as the fugitive mounted his horse to leave, the Dean was still standing near him, when the man pulled out a pistol and fired at the Dean, wounding him severely. The man tried to gallop away but was not quick enough and was instantly killed by one of the pike-men on guard, having afforded a striking example of the hatred between Protestants and Roman Catholics in those days."

    Neptune and Isabella married about 1670, and had issue:

    1. Neptune BLOOD,
      b. 1670, Corofin, Co. Clare, Ireland;
      d. 1 Jul 1683, Corofin, Co. Clare, Ireland.
      Died as a child.

    2. Elizabeth BLOOD,
      b. 1682, Corofin, Co. Clare, Ireland;
      d. 21 Sep 1688, Corofin, Co. Clare, Ireland.
      Died as a child.

    3. William BLOOD,
      b. 1683, Corofin, Co. Clare, Ireland;
      d. 13 Mar 1699, Corofin, Co. Clare, Ireland.
      Died as a child.

    Neptune's wife Isabella died in 1683, possibly as a result of William's birth. He married again, although nothing is known of his second wife, but some of the children mentioned on the monument in the Kilfenora churchyard were born well after Isabella's death, so she cannot have been their mother. The birth dates of Samuel, George and Vesey are unknown, but it is more probable that they were sons of Neptune's second wife.

    1. Samuel BLOOD,
      b. abt 1685, Corofin, Co. Clare, Ireland;
      m. Laura VERLING,
      daughter of the Rev. Richard Verling,
      of Glanamore, Co. Cork, Ireland.
      b. est. 1685 - 1690.
      Married in 1707 and had issue:

      1. William BLOOD,
        b. est. 1707 - 1727
        William died without issue.

      2. Isabella BLOOD,
        b. est. 1707 - 1712
        m. Thomas VERO,
        of Loughrea, Co. Galway, Ireland.
        b. est. 1690 - 1712
        Married in 1730
        Further information unknown.

    2. Deborah BLOOD,
      b. 1686, Corofin, Co. Clare, Ireland;
      d. 5 Jun 1695, Corofin, Co. Clare, Ireland.
      Died as a child.

    3. Theodosia BLOOD,
      b. 1686, Corofin, Co. Clare, Ireland;
      d. 20 Apr 1699, Corofin, Co. Clare, Ireland.
      Died as a child.

    4. John BLOOD,
      b. 1689, Corofin, Co. Clare, Ireland;
      d. 21 May 1694, Corofin, Co. Clare, Ireland.
      Died as a child.

    5. Neptune BLOOD,
      b. 1692, Corofin, Co. Clare, Ireland;
      d. 30 Mar 1700, Corofin, Co. Clare, Ireland.
      Died as a child.

    6. George BLOOD,
      b. abt 1695, Corofin, Co. Clare, Ireland.
      m. (spouse unknown) and had issue:

      1. Richard BLOOD,
        b. abt 1715
        Further information unknown.

      2. Anne BLOOD,
        b. abt 1720
        m. William BLOOD,
        b. abt. 1720.
        William and Anne were second cousins; for their descendants, see The Bloods of Fantore

    7. Vesey BLOOD,
      b. abt. 1695, Corofin, Co. Clare, Ireland.
      Further information unknown.

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