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was not admitted to sport south of Laghtalasshrig, the present Gap at the 

 boundary between the counties of Waterford and Tipperary ; that about 

 forty years ago [1735], one Ellis, huntsman to Lord Cahir, was hunting a 

 hind on the said mountains and killed the same at a place called Monygorm, 

 within two miles of Lismore ; and saith the drivers and gamekeepers stopped 

 the hounds and took away the deer. 



"Darby Cunningham, of Ballynatray, aged seventy, saith that the right 

 of Thomas Lord Cahir to sport south of Lachtalassinig was not admitted, 

 but was opposed by the servants of Lord Burlington, and he was present 

 thereat ; but that the gentlemen who were out with Lord Cahir hunted 

 and killed the said deer in Lord Burlington's estate in spite of Lord 

 Burlington's servants. 



" The same witness, in reply to cross-interrogatories, says that Thomas 

 Lord Cahir did sometimes with his huntsmen and servants come to hunt 

 deer on the said disputed mountains, but were always prevented from so doing 

 by the servants of the Earl of Burlington, except that when Lord Cahir 

 or his people 'roused a stag' on their side of the bounds, they then had 

 liberty to hunt him wherever he run. 



" Darby llyau, of Lismore, aged sixty, saith that the right of Lord 

 Cahir to sport on the said disputed mountains was disputed and opposed by 

 the servants and agents of Lord Burlington, and the said deponent was 

 present when such right was disputed and opposed ; and saith during 

 deponent's time Lord Cahir's people were not admitted to sport on the 

 said disputed mountains, unless they proved that they found the deer on 

 Lord Cahir's estate." 



"The disputed mountains," says Mr. Currey, "were part of 

 the Knockmealdown range, extending from the Gap to the top 

 of Knockmealdown, including the Sugar-loaf Mountain, and 

 extending south somewhat farther than the present Police 

 Barrack. Mention is made in the depositions of the witnesses 

 of the existence in the time of Lord Burlington of oak woods and 

 coppices on parts of the disputed ground, and of some of them 

 being cut down." 



That Bed -deer were formerly abundant in this part of the 

 country appears from numerous bones and portions of antlers 

 of the species which I found last summer (1881) in the kitchen- 

 midden of a rath near "Whitechurch, associated with bones of 

 domestic animals, charcoal, knives and other objects of iron, as 

 well as pins and whorls made of the deer's antlers. Portions of 

 antlers occurred, even at the surface, with moss adhering to 

 them. There is a tradition that this rath was a robber's strong- 



