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THE BLOODS OF KILNABOY<br />
County Clare, Ireland.
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<p>Descended from Edmund BLOOD.</p>

<p>Edmund was the son of Edmund Blood of Makeney House; for his ancestry, see <a href="blood_makeney.shtml#blood_3">The Bloods of Makeney</a>.
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<p>Edmund Blood went to Ireland from Derbyshire, in 1595. He was elected MP for Ennis, Co. Clare in 1613. He resided at Kilnaboy and Bohersallagh, Co. Clare, and was a wealthy ironmaster. Edmund obtained the grant of Sarney (near Rath, Co. Meath) in 1640.</p>

<p>Sir Bindon Blood, in his memoirs, written in 1932, states that the first Blood in Ireland was Capt. Edmund Blood of Mackney (Makeney) House, near Duffield in Derbyshire, who went over in 1595 as a Captain in a force raised in the English Midlands. He was taken to Co. Clare by Lord Inchiquin to introduce law and order "among the wild and unruly."</p> 

<p>Frost's History of Clare states: "Another tradition about the Captain and his eldest son, Dean Neptune Blood of Kilfenora Cathedral in West Clare, a "Pillar of the Church" has it that they added to their incomes by levying tolls on the ships that passed, at that time in large numbers, to and from the Port of Galway. They arranged this by means of a small harbour on the coast just outside the southern limit of the Bay of Galway, which was protected by a castle and afforded shelter to a number of longboats with well-armed crews, who boarded the ships and levied the tolls. When the Cromwellians took Limerick in 1651, and carried out a "settlement" in Clare, they are said to have objected to these doings, even to the extent of calling them piracy, of burning the boats, blowing up the castle and dispersing the fighting men; but, strange to say, at the same time they gave the Dean compensation in the shape of three grants of confiscated land - this last transaction being officially on record to this day."</p>

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<p class="smallctr"><img src="photos/kilnaboy_castle_ruins.gif" width="175" height="283" alt="" border="2"><br />
The Ruins of Kilnaboy Castle</p>

<p>The landholders of Kilnaboy Castle were:</p>
<ul>
<li>Edmund Blood, 1568 - 1640.</li>
<li>Neptune Blood, 1595-1692 - Edmund's second son.</li>
<li>Thomas Blood, 1640-1726.</li>
</ul>

<p>Kilnaboy Castle was destroyed by the rebels in the rebellion of 1641; Thomas chose not to rebuild it, but instead took up residence at Bohersallagh (Applevale).</p>

<p>Parts of the walls of Kilnaboy Castle still stand today; the castle is known as <i>"An Cabhail Mh&oacute;r"</i> (The Big Ruin).</p>

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<ol>
<li class="one"><a name="blood_3" class="one">
Capt. Edmund BLOOD</a>,<br /> 
b. 1568, Makeney House, Duffield, Derbyshire, England;<br /> 
d. 1640 at Kilnaboy Castle, Co. Clare, Ireland.<br />
Married and had issue:<br /><br/>

 <ol>
 <li class="two"><a name="blood_5" class="two">
 Rev. Neptune BLOOD</a>,<br /> 
 b. 1595, at sea en route to Ireland;<br /> 
 d. 1692 at Kilnaboy Castle, Co. Clare, Ireland.<br />
 Dean of Kilfenora and Vicar-General of the Diocese of 
 Kilfenora<br />
 m. <a name="blood_6" class="two">
 Elizabeth LOVE</a>,<br /> 
 daughter of the Very Rev. Hygate Love, Dean of Kilfenora;<br /> 
 b. 1622,<br /> 
 d. 1644<br />
 Married abt. 1638, <br />
 and had issue:<br /><br />
 
  <ol>
  <li class="three"><a name="blood_511" class="three">
  Edmund BLOOD</a>,  
  b. 1639, Kilnaboy Castle, Co. Clare, Ireland<br />
  Married (spouse unknown), <br />
  and had issue:<br /><br />
   
   <ol>
   <li class="four"><a class="four" name="blood_476">
   Edmund BLOOD</a>,<br />
   b. abt. 1700,<br />
   m. <a class="four" href="blood_applevale#blood_475">
   Deborah BLOOD</a>, b. abt. 1700,<br />
   For Edmund and Deborah's descendants, see 
   <a href="blood_brickhill.shtml" class="four">
   The Bloods of Brickhill</a><br /><br />										<!-- Redirect to BLOOD OF BRICKHILL -->
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   </ol>
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  <li class="three"><a name="blood_7" class="three">
  Thomas BLOOD</a>,<br /> 
  b. 1640, at Kilnaboy Castle, Co. Clare, Ireland; <br />
  d. 1726.<br />
  m. <a name="blood_8" class="three">
  Unknown DAVIS</a>,<br /> 
  and had issue.<br />
  For Thomas' descendants, see 
  <a href="blood_applevale.shtml" class="three">
  The Bloods of Applevale.</a><br /><br />                                       <!-- Redirect to BLOOD OF APPLEVALE -->
  </li><!-- End Thomas BLOOD -->
  
  <li class="three"><a name="blood_513" class="three">
  Peregrine BLOOD</a>, 
  b. Abt 1640-1644, Kilnaboy Castle, Co. Clare, Ireland<br />
  Lived at Knocknarhea, Co. Clare. Was the Commissioner 
  for collecting Poll Tax, in 1695.<br /> 
  Further details unknown.<br /><br />
  </li><!-- End Peregrine BLOOD -->

  <li class="three">Rev. <a name="blood_514" class="three">
  Neptune BLOOD</a>, 
  b. Abt 1640-1644, Kilnaboy Castle, Co. Clare, Ireland;<br /> 
  d. 30 Mar 1716<br />
  m. <a name="blood_515" class="three">
  Isabella PULLEIN</a>,<br />
  daughter of Samuel Pullein, Archbishop of Tuam, and Elizabeth Bramhall. <br />
  For Neptune and Isabella's descendants, see 
  <a href="blood_corofin.shtml" class="three">
  The Bloods of Corofin.</a><br /><br />										<!-- Redirect to BLOOD OF COROFIN -->
  </li><!-- End Neptune BLOOD -->

  <li class="three"><a name="blood_533" class="three">
  Henry BLOOD</a>, 
  b. abt 1640-1644, Kilnaboy Castle, Co. Clare, Ireland<br />
  Further details unknown.<br /><br />
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  </ol>
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 <li class="two"><a name="blood_534" class="two">
 Edmund BLOOD</a>,<br /> 
 b. abt 1596, Kilnaboy Castle, Co. Clare, Ireland;<br />
 d. 1615.<br />
 Further information unknown.<br /><br />
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 <li class="two"><a name="blood_535" class="two">
 Thomas BLOOD</a>,<br /> 
 b. 1598, Kilnaboy Castle, Co. Clare, Ireland;<br /> 
 d. 1645, Sarney, Dunboyne, Co. Meath, Ireland<br />
 For Thomas' descendants, see 
 <a href="blood_sarney.shtml" class="two">
 The Bloods of Sarney</a>.<br /><br />											<!-- Redirect to BLOOD OF SARNEY -->
 </li><!-- End Thomas BLOOD -->

 <li class="two"><a name="blood_557" class="two">
 William BLOOD</a>,<br /> 
 b. 1600, Kilnaboy Castle, Co. Clare, Ireland;<br />
 d. Dunboyne, Co. Meath, Ireland<br />
 m. <a href="blood_558" class="two">
 Margery ROW</a><br />
 For their descendants, see 
 <a href="blood_dunboyne.shtml" class="two">
 The Bloods of Dunboyne.</a><br /><br />										<!-- Redirect to BLOOD OF DUNBOYNE -->
 </li><!-- End William BLOOD -->
 </ol>
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</ol>

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