Red grouse by sheep. Conservation measures taken on foot of the judgment have seen the population in the area double from 400 to 800. The red grouse is considered a game bird and is shot in large numbers during the shooting season which traditionally starts on August 12, known as the Glorious Twelfth. There is a keen competition among some London restaurants to serve freshly killed grouse on August 12, with the birds being flown from the moors and cooked within hours. Shooting can take the form of 'walked up' (where shooters walk across the moor to flush grouse and take a
The Hackler from Grouse Hall with Jemmy from Grouse Hall”, vowed to find the “man who wrote the song”, and have him before the judge. In the period after the Famine many town shopkeepers bought tracts of countryside and in many cases were as uncaring as the traditional planter landlord. One such, whom he describes as “bloated and bluffed, a boycotted draper, in Ballyjamesduff”, is castigated in “The Calico Landlord”. Finally in "Petie’s Cat" he regales the foibles of some neighbours who allow a row over a cat to make it to a court hearing in Ballyjamesduff. The Hackler from Grouse Hall "The Hackler from