Neptune Blood was a 17th-century

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priest in Ireland. Blood was educated at

Trinity College, Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Univ ...

. He was ordained a priest on 12 March 1622. A

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of Rath at

Killaloe Cathedral The Cathedral Church of St Flannan, Killaloe ( ) is a cathedral of the Church of Ireland in Killaloe, County Clare in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Previously the cathedral of the Diocese of Killaloe, it is now one of five cathedrals in the Dio ...

, he was

Archdeacon of Kilfenora The Archdeacon of Kilfenora was a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Kilfenora until 1643; the Archdiocese of Tuam until 1752; the Diocese of Killaloe and Kilfenora until 1834; and the Diocese of Killaloe and Clonfert until 1 ...

from 1641 to 1663. He was

Dean of Kilfenora The Dean of Kilfenora was based at the Kilfenora Cathedral, Cathedral Church of St Fachnan (also known as St Fachtna) in Kilfenora, Clare in the small Diocese of Kilfenora within the Church of Ireland. It is probable that the Dean and Chapter we ...

from 1663 to 1692; and

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from 1676. His son was

from 1692 until 1716.Alumni Dublinenses (ibid): FEH V1 p506 (ibid)

References

Deans of Kilfenora Archdeacons of Kilfenora 1692 deaths 17th-century Irish Anglican priests Alumni of Trinity College Dublin {{Ireland-Anglican-dean-stub