1 68 HARE-HUNTING AND HARRIERS 



is another two-pack county. The SHgo, seventeen 

 and a half couples of twenty-two-inch foxhounds, 

 hunt two days a week from Oakfield, near Sligo, under 

 the Mastership of Lieut. -Colonel Campbell. Mr. 

 O'Hara's, with eighteen couples of twenty-two-inch 

 cross-bred harriers, is a private pack, hunting from 

 Annaghmore, CoUooney, where the O'Hara family 

 have maintained hounds for generations. Both 

 packs hunt over a good grass country and are little 

 interfered with by wire. 



Antrim is the last in my list of Irish counties main- 

 taining two harrier packs. The Killultagh, Old Rock, 

 and Chichester, with kennels at Crumlin, consist of 

 twelve couples of twenty-one-inch harriers and fox- 

 hounds. They hunt over a good country, largely of 

 old pasture, with about 25 per cent, plough. Of late 

 years wire and a growing scarcity of hares have tended 

 somewhat to the depreciation of sport. The Route 

 harriers' country lies partly in Antrim, partly in 

 Londonderry. The kennels are situate at Ballyma- 

 garry, near Portrush, where are maintained twenty- 

 four couples of twenty-two-and-a-half-inch cross-bred 

 hounds. Hunting is carried on two days a week. 

 Major J. A. Montgomery acting as Master, with 

 Captain F. J. Montgomery to carry the horn. 



I now turn to a number of counties in which only 

 one pack of harriers is to be found. In Armagh, the 

 Tynan and Armagh take the iield under the Mastership 

 of yet another lady Master, Miss Isa McClintock, who 

 employs a professional huntsman. These hounds, 

 now kept by subscription, were maintained for many 

 years as a private pack by the late Sir James Strange, 

 Bart. The kennels at Fellows Hall, Tynan, the 

 residence of the Master, contain fifteen and a half 

 couples of twenty-one-inch cross-bred hounds, which 



