HISTORY OF THE KILDARE HUNT 



Grange* into Cappagh and to ground. Hunted 

 our second fox from Cappagh for an hour from 

 Donadea, the first twenty minutes very fast and 

 lost near Clane, pitch dark when we finished." 



" 1853. Jan. 3rd. 18 Mile Stone, from New- 

 bridge. Ran our first fox from Killashee at a good 

 hunting pace for 40 minutes to ground near Naas. 

 From Stonebrook we went quick into Elverstown, 

 and then with a fresh fox over the hill through 

 Downshire and Three Castles across the turnpike 

 road and killed under Tallaght Hill. A fine hunting 

 run of 2 hrs and 35 minutes." 



" Jan. 15th. Donadea from Newbridge. Our 

 fox from Nine Tree Hill broke at the far end of the 

 gorse down the hill at the sewer which he found 

 stopped. 



" Drew a bog without finding went on to the 

 gorse on the hill and a brace of foxes went away 

 together. We hunted one under the demesne wall 

 across the road and eventually marked him into 

 Rathcoffey where we got on better terms and ran 

 at a good hunting pace across the river near Clane 

 into Turnings from which we ran most likely with 

 a fresh fox across the road and canal into Lyons 

 and lost. A fine hunting run." 



" Nover i6th. Newbridge. Dunlavin baker 

 jumped into a pit, at Downshire and broke five 

 ribs and both collar bones." 



The autumn of 1853 is an interesting date in the 



* Ballycahan. 

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