HISTORY OF THE KILDARE HUNT 



the mountains and lost, a fine run. Got a ducking 

 trying to cross the King's River." On the 23rd, 

 " Meet at Bray, drew DoUardstown, ran a ring for 

 an hour and lost. Drew Devies, found, ran to Nine 

 Tree Hill and back and killed a little the other side 

 of Devies; a good day." Then on Christmas Eve, 

 from a Sallins meet, they found at Kerdiffstown 

 and had a fine fifty-one minutes to ground at 

 Morgiana, by Kill Hill and Johnstown, and finished 

 what the Baron describes as a grand day with a fast 

 twenty minutes from Osbertstown to ground. 



The year 1859 ^^^^ opened auspiciously. After 

 slow work at Downshire and Tipper and a find and 

 kill in the park at Palmerstown and at Kerdiffstown, 

 a good fox broke from Kill Hill and, heading for 

 Kilteel, turned and ran through Arthurstown to 

 ground in Flanagan's land, giving a grand run of 

 forty-two minutes at a very fast pace. The scarcity 

 of foxes, however, still continued; there is a melan- 

 choly tale of drawing Curragh, Dunmurrey, Red- 

 hills and Martinstown all blank on the 4th. On the 

 6th Mullacash, Killashee, Punchestown, Elvers- 

 town, Geoghanstown were all untenanted. On the 

 nth there was a good mountain run from Tallaght 

 Hill to Shaun Mountain, ending in the escape of 

 the fox in the fog, but Castlebagot, Collierstown, 

 Johnstown and Verschoyle's plantation were all 

 drawn blank. Later, however, on the 13th, Nine 

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