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keeping thirty-one couple at Jcnkinstown, and having 

 Denny Callaghan as his huntsman. After one 

 season Thomas Mathews became huntsman, and 

 remained with the pack for some years. Mr. Bryan 

 was a fine horseman, and rode very well-bred horses. 

 He was quite a picture on a horse, being an unusually 

 handsome and striking-looking man. He showed 

 some good sport; but in 1852 he resigned, and the 

 Hunt was continued by a Committee, of which 

 Sir John Power was a prominent member. The 

 hounds were moved to St. James's Green, in Kil- 

 kenny, Matthews remaining on as huntsman, and 

 contracting with the Committee for all kennel 

 expenses, feeding hounds, &c. The contract, as 

 showing the cost of providing the various articles, 

 will be found in Appendix XI. It would seem that 

 Mr. Bryan hunted five days a fortnight, and the 

 same arrangement would appear to have been 

 continued under the Committee. The kennels at 

 St. James's Green, let to the Committee by Mr. 

 Thomas Bradley, who fitted them up, though 

 somewhat cramped and confined, and surrounded 

 by houses, were remarkably healthy, and hounds 

 did very well in them during the dozen seasons they 

 remained there. In 1854 Matthews left, and Lord 

 James Butler took the hounds in 1855, engaging a 

 man named Purslow as huntsman. Lord James, as 

 stated before, was a welter, but a very hard rider. 



In 1851 a steeplechase, somewhat in the nature of 

 a point-to-point race, came off at the Whitefields 

 of Coppcnagh, on the hills behind Kilfane, between 

 members of the Hunt, when Lord James sailed in 



