72 MEMOIR OF THE KILKENNY HUNT. 



CHAPTER VI. 



IN the year 1859 Lord Waterford was killed in the 

 hunting field while running a fox from one of the 

 coverts in the hills above Bessborough ; and on the 

 1 5th June of that year, a committee of the Hunt 

 Club, consisting of Mr. Flood of Farmly, Mr. John 

 Walsh of Fanningstown, Sir John Power, and Mr. 

 Edward Lewis Warren, recommended that that por- 

 tion of the Kilkenny country hunted by Lord Water- 

 ford, and the portion known as Briscoe's country, 

 together with Carricktriss, Tory Hill, and Knock- 

 brack, be given up to Lord Bessborough, as chairman 

 of the Curraghmore Hunt Committee, on his guaran- 

 teeing to the Kilkenny Hunt the sum of .50 per 

 annum, which, however, Mr. Warren considered 

 should be ?$. This recommendation was adopted 

 by a general meeting of subscribers to the Kilkenny 

 Hunt on the 2/th of the same month, with the 

 stipulation that the arrangement should only last for 

 one year, and that, if Kilkenny desired to resume 

 the country, they could do so on giving notice, &c. 

 Correspondence on the subject will be found in 

 Appendix VIII. 



It may be mentioned that Lord \Vaterford had 

 been lent additional coverts in the Kilkenny country 

 on account of Lord St. Lawrence hunting only five 



