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hunt two days a week. Captain Brisco's harriers 

 hunt three days a week from Clogrenane, Carlow — 

 where they are kennelled — in Carlow, Kildare, Queen's 

 County, and Kilkenny. The pack consists of fifteen 

 couples of twenty-two-inch foxhounds, hunted by 

 Captain Brisco, to whom Mrs. Brisco and the kennel 

 huntsman act as whippers-in. In Cork the Knock- 

 macool carry on operations from the place of that name 

 under the Mastership of Mr. Richard Beamish, who 

 hunts them. Fermanagh, with harriers of the same 

 name, Kildare with Colonel Crichton's, Londonderry 

 with the Derry, Queen's County with Mr. Moore's, 

 Wicklow with the Shelton Abbey, Tyrone with the 

 Seskinore, and Wexford with Mr. Doyne's, are all 

 one-pack counties. 



In Tipperary are to be found the Scarteen Beagles, 

 a famous pack of black-and-tan hounds, which have a 

 very ancient and most interesting history of their own. 



Mr. Clement Ryan, the present Master, tells me that 

 the ancestors of the Scarteen Beagles came originally 

 from the South of France, and were first owned by Mr. 

 John Ryan, of Bally vistin, who hunted them from 

 1735 to 1789. His son, Thaddeus Richard, succeeded 

 him, and hunted them until his death in 1823. 

 During his time the family moved from Ballyvistin 

 to Scarteen, the present family seat. John and 

 Thaddeus Ryan never kennelled the hounds, although 

 the latter certainly kept over twenty couples. Since 

 1823 the pack has always been kennelled. Upon the 

 death of Mr. Thaddeus Ryan, his son John succeeded 

 him, and by him the pack was hunted until the year of 

 his death, 1863, since which time his son, the present 

 Master, Mr. Clement Ryan, has hunted them. The 

 pack were maintained at Scarteen until 1890, but are now 

 kennelled at Emly House, the residence of the Master. 



