Scarteen
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Scarteen (Template:Langx, meaning 'small thicket')[1] is a townland in the civil parish of Ballyscaddan, County Limerick,[1] near the village of Knocklong in Ireland.
Fox hunting
Scarteen is best known for the Scarteen Hunt, a fox hunting pack of Kerry Beagles based at Scarteen House, a big house owned since the 1750s by the Ryan family, one of the few Catholic gentry of Penal times.[2] The dogs' coat pattern gave the hunt its nickname, the "Black and Tans", later applied derisively to sections of the Royal Irish Constabulary during the Irish War of Independence.[2] Hunt master Thady Ryan (1923–2005) increased the hunt's cachet among visitors from Great Britain and the United States and, later, Continental Europe.[2] Ryan was chef d'equipe of the Irish eventing team at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics.[2] since 2016[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". the hunt was mastered by Thady Ryan's son Chris Ryan.[3]
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