The Kingsale Hounds (pair)

Product code

kingsale Hounds ANKHP210
Tall Plinths ANKHP214

Price

Kingsale Hounds (pair) £6,500.00
Tall Plinths (pair) £2,325.00

Provenance

Produced as a limited edition of one hundred pairs.

These Great Danes are in the style of the favourite hunting dogs of the 26th Lord Kingsale, John de Courcy b.1717. John is described as being addicted to hunting and the pleasures of the chase and lived at Old Head Castle at Kingsale, County Cork. Here he kept a pack of hounds for the hunting of deer and the few remaining wolves in Ireland and imported a pair of specially bred pedigree hunting dogs to help him deal with the wolves. It is said that these dogs took part in the killing of the last wolf in Ireland in the 1760’s.

They were also of use to him on 4 March 1760, when the sons-in-law of the late Lord made a night attack on his house at Kingsale and he was obliged to escape by dropping from a back bedroom window. John died on 3 March 1776 and was buried at Ringrone. His beloved hounds were buried at the Old Head Castle.

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Technical information

Kingsale Hounds
Height: 75cm
Width: 74cm
Depth: 173cm
Weight: 1500kgs (pair)

Tall Plinth
Height 107cm
Width 77cm
Depth 176cm
Weight 2000kgs