24 MEMOIR OF THE KILKENNY HUNT. 



Castle Morres, Knockdrinya, Flood Hall, Chapclizod, 

 Norelands, Mount Juliet, Kilmoganny, Garryricken. 

 At Bessborough end were Bessborough, Castletown, 

 Annfield, Owning, Garryduff, Carricktriss. Besides 

 these coverts in the County Kilkenny, Mr. Power 

 drew Borris, in the County Carlow, frequently, as 

 well as the Poulmounty and Bahana woods below 

 Borris, and also Durrow woods in Queen's County. 

 Occasionally he went further afield as far as Cool- 

 lattin in Wicklow, and into North Wexford. Many 

 of these coverts still exist, and may be found in the 

 excellent hunting map lately made by Mr. James 

 Poe, junior, of Rose Hill. 



Let us now turn to a record of Mr. Power's sport. 



In the season 1813-14, Mr. Power started, as he 

 tells us, with thirty-six couple of hounds, but as he 

 had fifty-one couple the following season, we may 

 presume that in the former year the number of hounds 

 he gives were exclusive of the entry. He remarks 

 that the weather had been bad in the month of 

 October, and sport correspondingly bad, particularly 

 in the Tullow country, where game was scarce. 



On November 6th he was at Laurel Hill, near 

 Inistioge, and had a nice run to Russellstown. Sir 

 Wheeler Cuffe, Mr. Richard Langrishe, and the two 

 Messrs. Hunt, of Jcrpoint, were his only attendants. 

 He was there again on the 2Oth, and not finding 

 there or in the neighbouring coverts, he turned down 

 " a fox taken last day at Woodstock. A capital run 

 of more than an hour, all horses well beat ; the fox 

 ' rocked' near Ballinvarra (on the Graigue and Rower 

 road), having run more than ten miles. The hounds 



