Baltyboys House is a mansion built in the Georgian style.
[5] Dame Ninette de Valois, the great-granddaughter of Elizabeth Grant Smith, was born at Baltyboys.
[6][7] In her 1959 memoir Come Dance With Me, de Valois described Baltyboys House thus:[8]My home, Baltiboys, a country house situated some two miles from the village of Blessington in County Wicklow, stood in the middle of a beautiful stretch of country at the foot of the Wicklow Hills.
It was a typical Irish country house of about 1820-30, late Georgian in part, consisting of one main wing and two smaller ones.In January 2014 the estate sold for €4.925 million by the owner, Elizabeth McClory, daughter of Vincent O'Brien and second wife of Kevin McClory.
Baltyboys was not listed on the market, instead being sold through a private auction at Christie's.