MEMOIR OF THE KILKENNY HUNT. 85 



Kilcooly, where the fox passing the open earth was 

 killed just beyond it. This was a cracking fifty 

 minutes, and none saw it better than Mr. Robert 

 Stannard, though then not far short of seventy years 

 old. 



On February r/th, meeting at Dunmore, Mr. 

 Briscoe brought off a fine ring from Ballyfoyle by 

 Gaulstown, nearly to Uskerty, over the Brown 

 mountain, and so back by Wildfields and Park. In 

 the same year he had two fine runs from Kiltorcan,. 

 closely following each other, and from Ballyspellan,. 

 drawn at twenty minutes to four on the 5th Decem- 

 ber, he scored a blazing forty-three minutes by 

 Frankfort, Persse's gorse, the Seven Sisters, Mary- 

 mount, right into Urlingford village in the dark. 



On the 2 1st December the same covert furnished 

 another fine run to ground at Marymount, and the 

 Punchbowl a capital run through Barrington's gorse,. 

 past Trenchardstown and Tullaroan, and to ground 

 on Mr. Dillon's farm. 



During Mr. Briscoe's mastership it happened more 

 than once that deficiencies existed in the matter of 

 finances, and that difficulties were encountered in 

 making up the sum required for the Master. On 

 one occasion in 1874 Lord Ormonde, who was a 

 great supporter of the Hunt, gave an additional 70 

 for the purpose mentioned, and in 1875 he cleared 

 off a debt of ^500. This was followed by large 

 donations on other occasions ; and it is certainly not 

 too much to say that he saved the Hunt, if not from 

 extinction, at all events from dropping to a two days 

 a week affair, and that, had he not come forward 



