Kiltorcan, together with the Welch mountains and Bessborough 

 country which Briscoe hunted. 



Having acquired this fine tract, Lord Waterford was enabled to hunt 

 three or four days a week, but the hounds he then had, even in their 

 amalgamated state, were not sufficient, so he set to work and procured 

 reinforcements from many of the crack kennels in England, and in a 

 short time started a capital and well-bred pack at Curraghmore. 



Thus in the autumn of 1844 foxhunting was established at 

 Curraghmore. This was done under the title of "Lord Waterford's 

 Foxhounds ; " with Johnny Ryan huntsman, whipped into by Tom 

 Clooney and George Woods. 



The Waterford portion of the country was in a very neglected 

 state, and required a deal of reformation, but the Master went about 

 it with a will, and soon made all things straight. After a while he 

 planted Ballydurn, Ballyneale, Rathgormack, and other gorse coverts, 

 which ever after held foxes that afforded some of the best runs in 

 those parts of the country. 



It would be out of place here to refer to Lord Waterford's previous 

 exploits at Melton in scarlet, or across Aylesbury Yale and other places 

 in silk ; it is sufficient now to state that as an M.F.H. he soon became 

 equally famous in his own country. The sport he showed all through 

 the Mastership of his own hounds was quite magnificent — so much so 

 that men came from all parts of Ireland, and many came from 

 England, to participate in it. 



Lord Waterford's meets were very largely attended, and at them were 

 found many hard and good men to hounds. Alas ! nearly all these 

 fine fellows have since gone to other hunting-grounds, but there still 

 remain Sir Robert Paul, John T. Medlycott, George Malcomson, Wm. 

 Madden Glascott, Sir James Langrishe, Captain Peel (late of the 85th 

 Regiment), Robert Watson, (the veteran Master and huntsman of the 

 Carlow and Island Hounds), Congreve Rogers, Wray Palliser, Lord 

 James Butler, Maurice Knox, Harvey Montmorency^ Lord Howth, George 

 Gough, Joseph Strangmau, and until last year that fine sportsman and 

 great man to hounds, Horace Rochford, who, even in his old age, betook 

 himself to polo, and was one of the best men of the day in Ireland at 

 that grand game. 



Among those who hunted with him, who are dead and gone, were the 

 Coxs of Castletown, Johnny Power of Gurteen, Harry Jephson of 

 Waterford, the two Sir John Powers of Kilfane, David and Fred 

 Malcomson, George Bryan of Jenkinstown, William Quin of Lough- 

 loher, John Courtenay of Ballyedmond, Sir Nugent Humble, Lord 

 Huntingdon (grandfather of the present Earl), Richard and Thomas 

 Morris, John Power O'Shee, William Power of Seafield, the Lalors of 

 Cregg, Henry Briscoe, John de Montmorency, John Jones of Mulli- 

 nabro', Dan Osborn of Silverspring, William Bailey of Xorelands, 

 John Wade of St. Canice's, William Flood of Flood Hall, Rev. Nicholas 

 Herbert and his brother Walter, Captain Pack Beresford, Tom and 



