SIR JOHN KENNEDY, 1814-1841 



sportsmen in the field, for at the end of every day's 

 hunting he made a careful entry of the cap money 

 forthcoming during that day. On looking into this 

 diary for the day's hunting mentioned by Baron de 

 Robeck, when a hill fox took the hunt along the 

 ridge of the Wicklow Mountains, I find Mr Ken- 

 nedy's laconic entry of the same run, " Found at 

 Coolmine," and as there is no record of a kill I 

 know that the long run across the Glen of Saggart 

 to Ballinascorney, and so along the hills, ended in 

 the escape of the fox. 



Mr Kennedy's diary obviously lends itself to 

 analysis rather than to quotation, but a few of his 

 notes during the earlier years of his long reign 

 will not be out of place here. I find that when un- 

 interrupted by snow or frost the hunting days 

 averaged from ten to twelve in the month, and there 

 was evidently no lack of foxes from the beginning. 

 In the first month of these annals, that of October, 

 181 5, they found twenty-two foxes on nine hunt- 

 ing days, of which they killed six. " Hounds well 

 tired, but behaved well," is a remark on the 12th, a 

 day when he had found twice at Ballina, ran to 

 Garinshin, changed there, " but after good hunt- 

 ing too many foxes, found at Ballindowlan, ran 

 him through the demesne, but lost from want of 

 scent." Again, on the i6th, " Did not kill, from the 

 number of foxes found at Killibegs." Here is a 



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