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Kilcrea then became master, and, with Denis Sullivan, 

 huntsman, and Patrick Connell, whip, hunted the 

 country successfully until 1843, when the Earl of 

 Bantry sold the hounds to Mr. Drought of Roscom- 

 mon. Then Captain R. Tonson Rye got a pack of fox- 

 hounds, and has hunted the country ever since with 

 great success. Captain Woodley, who is a first-rate 

 horseman, carries the horn. At the beginning of 

 the present season (1877-8) Captain Rye gave up the 

 mastership, but lent the hounds to hunt the country. 

 Captain Woodley is now master. Tuesdays and Fri- 

 days are the hunting days. The kennels are new, 

 and situated near Meyshell ; James Kerlihy is first- 

 whip and kennel huntsman. The pack generally con- 

 sists cf thirty-two couple of working hounds. 



NOTES. 



A notice of the sportsmen of Cork would be incomplete 

 did it not make some reference to a very extraordinary man who 

 occupied amongst them a position quite unique — I allude to the 

 late Mr. " Philip" Cross of " Shandy Hall." He died lately, and 

 full of years, during which he shot, fished, and hunted with a 

 spirit which could only be borne by a quite extraordinary consti- 

 tution. Space only permits me to record one of his many exploits. 

 Before he disposed of his latest pack to an English gentleman (the 

 sale of which was the subject of a very remarkable lawsuit which 

 Mr. Cross won), and when a very old man, he shot four couple of 

 snipe for a sick friend, to whose home, some nine miles away, he 

 bore the birds, and met his horse and pack at eleven o'clock, a.m. 

 He hunted, and killed a hare, then ran into an outlying fox in 

 "the open;" came home, and killed a very fine salmon in the 

 Macroom river before the sunset of a late March day. Many of 

 my readers will, no doubt, recall the vigorous old man in the light 

 frock coat and white "duck" trousers, which, when not hunting, 

 he thought quite sufficient protection in even the most inclement 

 weather. His was an example of hardihood always rare, and, 

 perhaps, in these faster latter days impossible to be met with. 



