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the same time, Brownstown, Glensensaw, Annaghs, 

 Lucy's Rock, and Mullinahone Hill, with Woodstock 

 a neutral covert, which gave him all the Kilkenny 

 country from Carricktruss to Woodstock, and round 

 by the rivers Nore and Suir, except Killeen and Kil- 

 torcan ; these he fought hard for, but the Kilkenny 

 men loved those famous covers too well to part 

 them. 



Much was required to be done with the fox haunts 

 all over the country. Many had overgrown them- 

 selves, others were badly situated, while many places 

 required new covers to be established in them, so 

 Lord Waterford lost no time in setting about the 

 task, one which would be almost impossible to others 

 to accomplish, but the facilities he had enabled him to 

 do much. He established gorse covers in Weathers- 

 town, Mullinahone, Rochestown Hill, Earies Gorse 

 (given him by Lord Clonmel), and enlarged Carrig- 

 truss, and Galways cover. These are mostly in the 

 new countries he got from the Kilkenny and TIp- 

 perary hunts. In the Waterford country he planted 

 Passage Hill and Carrig-a-nure, where none existed 

 before, and from both of which he has been repaid 

 by having some rattling runs. Very few have ever 

 equalled him in becoming in so short a time so good 

 a judge of a horse and a hound. He is 2,professor 

 in the art of judging the two, and the consequence is, 

 he has in the Curraghmore kennels and stables this 

 moment a pack of hounds and a stud of horses that 

 may be equalled, but is not surpassed, by any establish- 

 ment in Great Britain. I will by-and-by dwell more 

 particularly on them. 



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