Clooney House, Clooney, Co Clare – house went to ruin

Bence-Jones, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.

p. 294. “Originally a two storey five bay C17 house of the Bindon family, which produced the C18 amateur architect and portrait painter Francis Bindon. The house burnt C19 and the property was sold by the impecunious Burton Bindon, who emigrated to Australia; his daughter and her husband Joseph Hall subsequently returned to Ireland and bought back Clooney. They rebuilt the burnt-out shell of the house in a rich Victorian Italianate style, … Unfortunately the Hall’s finances did not last out; he is said to have gambled and she was extravagant; so that by early C20 the house was once again ruinous. When Joseph Hall died 1907 he did not leave enough money to pay for his own burial.” 
 
Not in national inventory 
 
In Blake, Tarquin. Abandoned Mansions of Ireland. Collins Press, Cork, 2010. 

Listed in Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988.

“A two storey pedimented mid-19C house with single storey porch. Seat of the Bindon family and probably the birthplace of Francis Bindon the architect. Now a ruin.“