1 66 HARE-HUNTING AND HARRIERS 



Clare harriers, which are a subscription pack, hunt 

 practically the whole of Clare, which is untouched 

 by foxhounds. No wire exists in the country. 

 ^ The Derry Castle harriers have also their head- 

 quarters in Clare, at the residence — Derry Castle, 

 Killaloe — of the Master, Captain C. W. Gartside 

 Spaight. This pack numbers fifteen couples of twenty- 

 inch cross-bred hounds, which hunt two days a week. 

 Their country lies in Tipperary and part of Clare, 

 being divided by the Shannon. It consists of a strip 

 nineteen miles long by about five miles wide, nearly 

 all of it pasture. 



County Cork maintains three packs of harriers. Of 

 these the Funcheon Vale, mastered and hunted by 

 Mr. R. Grove Annesley, consists of twenty couples 

 of twenty-inch harriers, hunting two days a week 

 from kennels at Annesgrove, Castletownroche. The 

 Glanmire, fourteen and a half couples of twenty-one- 

 inch pure harriers, are kennelled at Glenmervyn, 

 Glanmire, and are hunted by Mr. R. Hall, the Master, 

 twice a week. The third Cork pack is the Dromana, 

 with kennels at Laurentinny, Clashmore, Youghall, 

 mastered and hunted by Mr. G. Denneley, Junr. 



The two packs of County Roscommon are the 

 Rockingham and the Roscommon. Of these, the 

 former, kennelled at Knockadoo, Boyle, which con- 

 sist of eighteen couples of twenty-one-inch dwarf 

 foxhound bitches, are hunted two days a week by 

 Mr. E. S. Robinson, joint Master with Mr. A. B. 

 Walker. The Rockingham succeeded to the Plains 

 of Boyle harriers in 1895. They are now a subscrip- 

 tion pack. The country is a good one, nearly all pas- 

 ture, untouched by foxhounds, and having no wire. 

 The Roscommon hunt a big pasture country, thirty- 

 three miles by twenty, in Roscommon and Galway. 



