MR WILLIAM KENNEDY, 1847-1854 



another good forty-two minutes on the 5th from 

 Mullacash through Dunstown to Kilcullen and 

 across the river to Kinnea, which is the last record 

 of much note during that season. 



Major H. L. Ruck Keene, whose father, Colonel 

 E. Ruck Keene, of the Queen's Bays and 15th Hus- 

 sars, hunted very regularly with the Kildare in the 

 middle years of the last century, has very kindly 

 sent me some extracts from his hunting diary which 

 will enable me to add a few notes of the sport 

 showed by Mr Kennedy. I see from these that 

 there was a pack of harriers at Palmerston, near 

 Dublin, in the 'fifties. Thus, 



" Octr. 8th, 1852. Meet at 9th Lock. Had a good 

 scurry with our first hare and lost. Found another, 

 but sporting master preferred a herring, after 

 which we had a grind." 



On December 14 of the same year I find: " Bray 

 from Castlemartin; hunted a fox on bad terms from 

 Levitstown into Welsh's gorse and away for a few 

 miles to ground. Found in Moone and ran away 

 very fast for about fifty minutes into Spratstown. 

 From this our fox made a short ring but was dead 

 beat and was killed close to the gorse. A very good 

 run, though not straight." 



" On Dec. 21st, 1852, Newron, from New- 

 bridge. Ran our first fox from Laragh a very good 

 fifty minutes over a magnificent country through 



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