HISTORY OF THE KILDARE HUNT 



difFstown and to ground in Palmerstown. Another 

 find at Arthurstown, through Eadstown twice 

 with the same result, to ground after a short run. 

 Sport for the first fortnight presented no feature of 

 interest, but on the 15th I read, " Drew Ballyhook 

 blank; chopped in Whitestown, ditto in Tynte 

 Park; found in Cold wells, good run to Hatfield, 

 where the hounds separated, most of them following 

 up their fox and killing him at Ballintaggart. The 

 remainder dragged on a fox slowly to Giltown. I 

 was well carried on Blueskin; jumped a tremendous 

 wall on Allen's farm." 



I gather that the hunting was more or less 

 featureless during the remainder of the season, 

 doubtless from the cause I have named. Also the 

 major was engaged in the courtship which ended 

 in his marriage, and as a consequence was a little 

 less concerned with the hunting than usual. There 

 is, in fact, no further record of sport until March 6, 

 when from Rathcoole there was a long checking run 

 from Coolmine to the mountains ending in a kill 

 near Kilbride. There was a similar day from a 

 Blessington meet in the same country on the 13th. 

 No sport at all on the 15th from Newcastle. On 

 March 26, after a great deal of pottering work 

 round Bishopscourt, they found late in the day at 

 Eadstown and had a fine thirty minutes to old 

 Kennel Hill, Ballymore Road to ground. 

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