7O MEMOIR OF THE KILKENNY HUNT. 



good runs, amongst which the following may be 

 chronicled : 



February loth, 1858. Met at Shankill. After 

 drawing several coverts without much result, a game 

 fox was found at Kilmogar, and went away up wind 

 through Clara, and over the bottoms of Flagmount, 

 through the covert, and passing the wood of Castle- 

 warren on the right ran along the valley through 

 Baurnafea, and on towards Uskerty ; but turning 

 into the wind again, hounds ran at a great pace nearly 

 to Old Leighlin, where he made a short turn, and 

 reached Mr. Aylward's gorse covert over Shankill. 

 Time up to this point was an hour and ten minutes, 

 and distance traversed about ten miles. Here hounds 

 divided, seven couple going on towards Castlewarren 

 with the hunted fox, and were not found when night 

 set in. Remainder of the pack were stopped off 

 other foxes. Mr. Bryan and the late Sir Richard 

 Power (then a boy) cut out the work, but most horses 

 were beaten, even Mr. Marum's succumbing. 



Two days later (i2th February), meeting at Bally- 

 ragget, and finding at Pheroda, Lord St. Lawrence 

 had a capital gallop towards Castlecomer, then turn- 

 ing to Fennon, wheeled back past Pheroda, and on to 

 the Rock covert ; crossed the Ballinakill road, and 

 thence to Decrpark to ground. From Conahy he 

 had a second very fast spin of twenty-five minutes 

 past Fennon and into Castlecomer to ground. 



In the following November he had a sporting run 

 from Uskerty into Ballyfoyle to ground ; a blazing 

 thirty-five minutes, which Mr. Robert Stannard, Mr. 

 Marum, Mr. Thomas Power, and the two Messrs. 



