LORD CLONMELL, 1854-1857 



Palmerstown, where they killed. Then they had a 

 sharp ten minutes from Castle Keely to ground, 

 followed by a find at Mansfield cover and " a nice 

 little scurry." 



The first fair day's sport was on the 14th, when 

 they found at Ballintagart, went away fast to Hat- 

 field, on to Lochatrina, by Grange Bog and to 

 Moore Hill, where the fox was lost after a very 

 good run. Sport continued good through the 

 month. On the i6th, a Thursday, after drawing 

 Harbordstown, Dunstown and Mullacash, all blank, 

 they found at Punchestown and went away fast to 

 Eadstown at a great pace where they checked for a 

 few minutes. They then worked round to Mulla- 

 cash and on to Stonebrook, where the hounds 

 killed after a fast and good run of one hour and 

 twenty minutes. On the 21st, again, with the meet 

 at Blessington, and after some pottering work at 

 Three Castles, Downshire and Eadstown, they 

 came on a fox in a patch of gorse on Newtown 

 snipe bog, ran to Eadstown, through the cover and 

 on to Downshire, a good fast run ending in a loss 

 in the dark. There was a foretaste of that dreadful 

 Crimean winter of 1855 at the end of the month, 

 when hunting was stopped by frost and snow for a 

 week, but on the 30th a good fox went away from 

 Bellavilla and straight to Turnings at a very fast 

 pace, and took the hounds across the Liff^ey, then 



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