The Irish legend of
Turrean, the story of a beautiful woman magically changed into the
first Irish Wolfhound by a jealous sorceress, intrigued me. Research
of the aspects of the enjoyable story gave me the name for my new
female Wolfhound, Turrean. When I was told that I would be getting a
male, I had to come up with a name for him and since the sons of the
mythical Turrean were Bran and Sceolan, I decided to use one of
those names. There are just so many Irish Wolfhounds named Bran and
I wanted something representative but a bit different, so I chose
Sceolan for my new male puppy. BUT...what kennel name to put on his
AKC registration papers? For weeks I tried various combinations of
sounds and words and phrases, yet nothing clicked until I decided
that TURREAN, being first in legend and first female Irish Wolfhound
in my future, should have that honor, thus Turrean Kennel was born.
So there we sat, the day I picked up Sky (Sceolan), the registration
paper in front of me and that regal, soulful little face peering up
at me, that it came to me: "commanding appearance"! So how can I
describe that in my kennel name. Someone said, "Be snobbish and make
it the Turrean". My male became: O'Sullivan Sceolan of The
Turrean. That is the day THE TURREAN IRISH WOLFHOUND KENNEL was
born. |