Ballykilty, Quin, Co Clare 

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. 290. “(Blood/IFR) A three storey C18 house, remodelled C19 after a fire and given a two storey Victorian front with a projecting pedimented centre carried on the pillars of an open porch. A seat of the Blood family, members of which included “The Reputed Colonel” Thomas Blood, who attempted to carry off the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London 1671, the early C19 bibliophile and numismatist Bindon Blood, known – presumably on account of his name, rather than of his habits – as “the Vampire,” and his namesake General Sir Bindon Blood who died 1940 aged 97. Ballykilty is now a hotel.”