10 MEMOIR OF THE KILKENNY HUNT. 



Mr. John Power brought a pack of foxhounds into 

 the county from Tipperary, at the instance of Sir 

 Wheeler Cuffe, of Leyrath, and, settling at Derryna- 

 hinch, near Ballyhale, established the Kilkenny Hunt 

 Club in conjunction with his brother Richard. The 

 two brothers were sons of Mr. John Power, of 

 Tullaghmaine Castle, in the County Tipperary, and 

 co-heirs of their uncle, Baron Power, of the Court of 

 Exchequer in Ireland. Their father had served in 

 India, and had been aide-de-camp to Lord Clive at 

 the battle of Plassey. Mr. Power constructed kennels 

 at Derrynahinch, of which only a very small portion 

 of one of the walls now remains. The house, 

 however, still stands much as it was a hundred 

 years ago, though Mr. Edmond Walsh, who now 

 occupies it, has re-roofed it and made other improve- 

 ments during the last few years. Shortly after 

 coming to Derrynahinch, Mr. John Power married 

 Miss Harriet Bushe, of Kilfane, sister of the then 

 owner, Mr. Henry Amias Bushe, and daughter of 

 Mr. Gervais Parker Bushe, whose ancestor, Colonel 

 John Bushe, had a grant of Kilfane in 1670, after the 

 forfeiture of the Cantwells, the original proprietors. 

 Mr. Power's eldest son, the late Sir John Power, 

 second baronet, and his twin brother Richard were 

 born at Derrynahinch, in 1/98 ; but, about the 

 beginning of the century, Mr. Power took a lease for 

 ever of Kilfane from his brother-in-law, and went to 

 reside there. When he established the hunt, he found 

 the country to a great extent unenclosed, and often 

 mentioned that, whilst living at Derrynahinch, he 

 could follow hounds over a district called the Welsh 



