MEMOIR OF THE KILKENNY HUNT. 77 



Mr. Meredyth's reign lasted nine years, and much 

 good sport, especially in his earlier seasons, was 

 enjoyed. About 1866 he moved the hounds from 

 James's Green to Xorelands. In 1867 Sir John 

 Power sold the pack to a Committee of the Hunt 

 Club for ^300, with a proviso that should they be 

 given up at any future time, his son and successor 

 should have the refusal of them at that price. The 

 ownership of the pack thus passed from Sir John 

 Power's family after uninterrupted possession for 

 more than seventy years. Mr. Meredyth hunted 

 three days a week, and had an occasional " bye." 

 He followed the custom of hunting a May fox, and 

 there are some who may recollect how that meeting 

 at Rosbercon, on the 3rd of May, about the year 

 1865, he found a fox at Lucy's Rock, and ran him to 

 the top of Tory Hill. 



Amongst Mr. Meredyth's good runs in that 

 country may be mentioned a run from Woodstock 

 into Lucy's Rock, an eight mile point over a nice 

 country ; and the usual run from Brownstown wood, 

 a covert belonging to Sir John Power, was into 

 Lucy's Rock or Annaghs, both about five miles from 

 Brownstown. At that time there were no intervening 

 coverts, Weatherstown having been made by the 

 late Lord Waterford, and Mullinahone an unfenced 

 piece of gorse. 



The following good runs took place during Mr. 

 Meredyth's mastership. In February, 1866, meeting 

 at Five-Mile Stone, a fox was found at Castlewarren, 

 and went away over the stream and nearly to Old 

 Leighlin, but turned through Shankill and down to 



