1 8 MEMOIR OF THE KILKENNY HUNT. 



was much associated in the Kilkenny plays. But 

 Mr. Richard Langrishe, son of Sir Robert, whom he 

 succeeded in the baronetcy in 1835, hunted regularly, 

 as did his brother Robert. Mr. Richard Langrishe 

 was a good horseman and very fond of hunting. On 

 one occasion, when hunting in the Freshford country, 

 hounds ran hard over the Seven Sisters Hill in a 

 dense fog, naturally getting away from the field. Mr. 

 Langrishe, riding hard to catch them, overtook a 

 hound named Doxy, which he knew, and which, pro- 

 bably from age, could not run up. Hunting out the 

 line in the wake of the pack, she afforded him a clue, 

 bringing him over the hill and down into the plain 

 towards Woodsgift, where he came up with the body 

 of the pack on emerging into sunshine. Running on 

 for some way, hounds ran into their fox, Mr. Langrishe 

 being alone with them when they killed. Looking 

 back, he could see far behind him the scattered field 

 pouring down the hillside, and, as he was wont to 

 describe it, " driving the fog before them." Doxy 

 may be found in a list of Mr. Power's hounds in 

 Appendix I. 



The Rev. Richard Birmingham (usually called 

 " Dick Brimmagem ") was also a regular attendant in 

 the field, as was Mr. Joseph Greene, afterwards sti- 

 pendiary magistrate for Kilkenny, and father of the 

 late Mr. Joseph Greene, of Kilkenny. He was a hard 

 man, and rode a famous grey horse. 



The Messrs. Hunt, of Jerpoint, also hunted. 



A notice of these early members of the Kilkenny 

 hunting field would be incomplete without a reference 

 to a very remarkable man, Mr. Hewetson Nixon. He 



