HISTORY OF THE KILDARE HUNT 



town covert in Meath country, hunted in the 

 covert for about fifteen minutes, then went away 

 fast. Skirted Culmullen covert, through Grange, 

 and killed in Swainstown wood after a run of one 

 hour and fifty-five minutes over twenty miles of 

 country six miles from Navan. A splendid run. 

 Wakefield, Mick Aylmer, Mr Meredith, Sir James 

 Higginson, F. Kennedy and a few farmers being in 

 at the finish. Rode Cruiskeen and was well carried. 

 Had twenty miles to ride home." Long afterwards, 

 Mr W. B. Forbes, staying at Borris in Mr Arthur 

 Kavanagh's time, drove Baron de Robeck to the 

 meet at Ballydaston. Speaking of the Laragh run 

 the Baron said, " It was the best run I ever saw, 

 indeed, I don't see how it is possible to have had a 

 better." 



Major Mansfield's comment on the report in 

 Irish Sport of which I have spoken is as follows 

 and, as will be seen, is invaluable both for its 

 lucidity and authority. In a letter to me, dated 

 December, 1912, he writes: 



" I make the following comments on the account 

 of the great Laragh Run taken from Irish Sport 

 which you sent me. 



" My diary says, * Having dined at the round 

 table at Old Kildare Street Club the night before, 

 went by Mid. Rail to meet at Maynooth. Found a 

 Meath fox at Laragh. Ran to Collestown five miles 

 from Collestown by Kilcarty to Murphy's of the 

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