MEMOIR OF THE KILKENNY HUNT. 37 



fane from disease of the lungs, from which he had 

 long been an invalid. He was a great favourite with 

 all his acquaintances, and it was said of him that he 

 never made an enemy. His funeral, confined almost 

 exclusively to members of his family, took place at 

 Kilfanc Church at a very early hour (about daybreak) 

 on a winter's morning. At his death Mr. Power 

 received a considerable accession of fortune and a 

 valuable collection of pictures, statuary, engravings, 

 &c., which had been collected in Italy and elsewhere. 

 Mr. Richard Power had built stables adjoining the 

 road which leads to the Coppenagh Hills, and a few 

 hundred yards above the church, and these were sub- 

 sequently utilised as kennels by his nephew, the late 

 Sir John Power, when he came to Kilfane after his 

 father's death. 



After a great many years' service as huntsman, old 

 Byrne retired to a house at the cross-roads of Kilfane > 

 where he died at a good old age. He was succeeded 

 by an English huntsman named Robert Caunt 

 brother of the celebrated pugilist who, however, 

 went by the name of " Count " generally. He was 

 an excellent man in every way, and very fond of 

 hounds, in making and manning of which he was 

 especially an adept, and, indeed, may be said to have 

 introduced the English systems into the Kilkenny 

 kennels. It has been related to the compiler how he 

 would, after hunting in Kilkenny, go on to Hally- 

 darton in the evening, and inspect the hounds in 

 kennel with Mr. John Watson, by the light of a 

 lantern, travelling on next morning to hunt at Cool- 

 lattin or some such distant meet. When he came 



