Good questions BH, i will try to answer them.
The dog would need to be comfortable hunting at a distance with the other dogs, and out of sight sometimes, but at the same time, needs to know to work with the other dogs and myself, rather than run a line off on it's own as a pure hound would.
It would be hunting 'mixed quarry', mainly rabbits and fox, although it would have the chance of pushing other game.
The land would be everything from open mountainside / top with bracken and gorse covering, to woodland and forestry, to bramble patches and ditches. So a mix of wider ranging stuf