40 MEMOIR OF THE KILKENNY HUNT. 



bridge. The old kennels of Kilfane were finally 

 abandoned, and have gradually fallen to decay during 

 the last sixty years. Enough, however, remains to 

 enable the compiler to give a photograph and plan of 

 them, which may give some idea as to their con- 

 struction. A circular courtyard, bounded by a wall 

 nearly five feet in height, and with pillars about every 

 seven and a-half feet, rising to an additional height 

 of about four feet, the spaces between filled with 

 iron railings, ran round the front of the kennels, 

 whilst at the back was another small yard communi- 

 cating with the smaller kennel. Other buildings 

 adjoined, and there appears to have been a feeder's 

 or w r hip's room at the back. There were originally 

 twenty pillars round the large yard, of which four- 

 teen now remain. Large trees overshadow the ruin, 

 and some have grown up within it since its abandon- 

 ment. 



It will be evident that, as additional coverts were 

 made, and the stock of foxes thereby increased, it 

 became impossible to hunt the whole of Kilkenny 

 properly and country outside as well. Sir John 

 Power had given up drawing coverts in the County 

 Wicklow and County Wexford, and had practically 

 made over the coverts in the neighbourhood of 

 Burrow to the Ossory Hunt. In the year 1839, 

 some dispute or misunderstanding arose as to the 

 stopping of the Durrow earths, and Sir Wheeler 

 Cuffe was deputed to confer with Mr. Drought, 

 Master of the Ossory Hounds, on the subject. This 

 matter was settled amicably, and the arrangement 

 arrived at was that " the earths of Durrow woods 



