Wie die kontinentalen Volksstämme waren die Kelten in Irland an der Zucht großer Windhunde interessiert.
Diese großen irischen Windhunde mögen glatt- oder rauhhaarig gewesen sein, aber mit der Zeit herrschten wahrscheinlich wegen der klimatischen Verhältnisse in Irland die rauhhaarigen Hunde vor.
Die erste schriftliche belegte Aussage über diese Hunde geht auf einen römischen Konsul im Jahre 391 n. Chr. zurück, doch diese Windhunde waren schon im ersten Jahrhundert n.Chr. in Irland ansässig;
www.iw-info.deLike their continental cousins, the Irish Celts were interested in breeding large hounds.
These large Irish hounds could have had smooth or rough coats, but in later times, the rough coat predominated possibly because of the Irish climate.
The first written account of these dogs was by a Roman Consul 391 A.D. but they were already established in Ireland in the first century A.D. when Setanta changed his name to Cu-Chulainn (the hound of Culann).
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