3<D MEMOIR OF THE KILKENNY HUNT. 



eighteen miles ; all the places mentioned en route will 

 be very familiar to the present hunting field. 



Grennan wood can hardly be said to be a favourite 

 covert nowadays, and is very seldom drawn ; but 

 in these early days, and indeed later, it would seem 

 to have been the starting-point of many good runs, 

 of which the following is a specimen, whilst twenty- 

 five years later it furnished two of the finest runs the 

 late Sir John Power ever had. 



" Tuesday, 26th December. Drew Grennan at half- 

 past eleven ; found immediately, and went away with 

 a fox, after running through the entire covert, to 

 Jerpoint Abbey, and by Castlecosker to Coolnahaw. 

 Skirted the coverts of Coolnahaw and Brownstown 

 (one and a-half hours), and went on for Glen more. 

 From Brownstown to Glenmore had capital slow 

 hunting for an hour, and lost the fox after a run of 

 two hours and a-half. Ran full eighteen miles." 

 The point from Grennan to Glenmore is nearly twelve 

 miles. 



On January 3rd, 1816, after a run from Cloghila, 

 Mr. Power " turned down a fox, taken the last day 

 at Mount Juliet. He evidently knew the country, 

 and ran direct for Clara, where he went to ground, 

 after a very nice run." 



On Friday, the I2th, he drew Kilmoganny "with 

 sixteen couple of old hounds, a chosen few. The fox, 

 a wild one, went out of covert as hounds went in, 

 and ran for Windgap, where he turned and ran for the 

 slate quarries ; turned again to the left, and ran 

 through Annfield covert and demesne, by Castletown 

 to Martin's earths, where he just saved his life by 



