HISTORY OF THE KILDARE HUNT 



Mr d'Esterre, and Lord Clonmell made endless 

 efforts to discover the exact spot of the encounter 

 in order that he might mark it with a memorial 

 stone. But none of the old people of the country 

 could point it out, and it consequently remains 

 unmarked to this day. 



Lord Clonmell was very good-looking, and it 

 was said that at Queen Victoria's Coronation he 

 and Lady Clonmell, then newly married, were con- 

 sidered the handsomest couple present, and as the 

 Irish saying goes, " it was given up to them." He 

 died at the early age of forty-nine in 1866, and was 

 buried at Maudlins Cemetery near Naas on Ash 

 Wednesday of that year among signs of universal 

 respect and sympathy. It was an impressive 

 ceremony, the coffin being lowered into the vault 

 by the light of torches. It was recalled at the time 

 and is still remembered that he was a friend of the 

 poor and a kind and considerate landlord. It was 

 said of him when in the years of the famine the 

 tenantry on many of the estates in Ireland were 

 reduced to poverty and hunger Lord Clonmell said 

 to his agent: " I am fond of hunting but I will part 

 with hunters, hounds and servants rather than let 

 my tenants want." 



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