page_title: List of hound packs of Ireland
section_title: South-west region
hierarchical_section_title: List of hound packs of Ireland / Foxhound packs / South-west region
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: irishmemories00some (find matches) Title: Irish memories Year: 1919 (1910s) Authors: Somerville, E. . (Edith none), 1858-1949 Subjects: Ross, Martin, 1862-1915 Martin, Violet Florence, 1865-1915 Ireland -- Social life and customs Publisher: New York&#160;: Longmans, Green and Co. Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ediaries. No longer are such items to be found as&#160;: Jack, Martin, and I took hounds to walk outwith Patsey. Came on a hare. (This means thatwe went to look for a hare, ardently and with patience.) Ran her for two and a half hours, all on our ownmiserable legs. Lost her in darkness. All prettytired when we got back to kennels. Or again. Aylmer, Martin, and I went to kennelsand christened the new draft, seven and a half coupleof puppies. Coupled them and tried to take themout. The instant they were coupled they went starkmad and fought, mostly in the air; it looked like abattle of German heraldic eagles. Other entries, which I decline to make public, relateto drags, disreputably laid, for disreputable reasons,and usually dedicated to English visitors, who didnot always appreciate the attention. My brother kept the hounds going for twelveseasons, during which we had the best of sport andlearned to know the people and the country in the waythat hunting alone can teach. After his long term Text Appearing After Image: THE WEST CARBERY HOUNDS. M. J. R. HORSES AND HOUNDS 275 of office had ended, a farmer summed up for me theopinion that the country people had of him&#160;: He was the King of the world for them&#160;! If herode his horses into their beds theyd ask no better&#160;! When he gave up in 1903, I followed him in theMastership, which I have held, with an interval offour vears, ever since. Of all sitivations under thesun, none is more enviable or onerable than that ofa Master of foxounds, Mr. Jorrocks observes, andfurther states that his ead is nothin but one greatbump of untin&#160;! I do not say that things havegone as far as this with me, but I will admit that thehabit of keeping hounds is a very clinging one. Many congratulations and much encouragementwere bestowed upon me when I bought the houndsand took office, but warnings were not wanting. Afriend, himself a Master of Hounds, wrote to me andsaid that it required the patience of Job, and thetemper of a saint, and the heart of a lion, to navigatea pack of Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: This is a list of hound packs in Ireland. The hounds are divided by quarry, and type of hunting including stag hunting, fox hunting, clean boot hunting, mink hunting, mounted hare hunting and beagling. Foxhounds, Harriers and Beagles are further divided by geographic region.
context_section_description: West Carbery Foxhounds
  Avondhu Fox Hounds
  Blarney Hunt Club – trencher fed Kerry Beagle pack
  Carbery Foxhounds
  Duhallow Foxhounds
  Macroom Foxhounds
  United Hunt Club
  South Union Foxhounds
  Muskerry Hunt
  West Carbery Foxhounds
caption: West Carbery Foxhounds, early 20th century
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