Carrauntoohil

El jueves pasado, desde Killarney, me acerque al circo que describen las cumbres cercanas al Carrauntoohil. Al final de una larga y estrecha carretera, desde Cronins Yard (que consiste en una casa, un cobertizo de granja y un pub) sale un camino pedregoso que remonta el cauce de un arroyo de montaña. La senda es amplia, pasa al lado de terrenos vallados para las ovejas, cruza un puente de metal de reciente construcción (dedicado a la montañera fallecida Angela Kenny), y poco a poco va subiendo hacia los lagos y el comienzo de Devils Lader.
El circo comprende dos lagos al pie de los cantiles en una especie de llanura elevada.
Desde allí las vistas hacia el Carrauntoohil son impresionantes, un oscuro pico que se eleva unos 700 metros sobre nosotros con unas paredes escabrosas por las que descienden innumerables cascadas.
A la derecha se destaca una formación rocosa como un cuerno o pico aislado, parece el colmillo de la montaña...
En el promontorio entre los lagos, quizás un poco apartado, podría estar el mejor lugar para enterrar el cráneo de lobo.

Wolf Carrauntoohil

More info:

http://www.objetivosilvania.org/Objetivo_Silvania/wolf_carrauntoohil_1750.html

Wolf Carrauntoohil is an intervention project that involves the clandestine transfer of a skull of an Iberian wolf to Ireland and it being placed on a memorial-landmark in the vicinity of Carrauntoohil, the highest mountain in the country and one of the places where some of the last wolves in Ireland disappeared around the year 1750. 

The project will include:

Preliminary phase with transfers, documentation and research.

Intervention phase with a stay and fieldwork in the area, implementation and monitoring of the intervention.

Dissemination phase.

PROJECT REPORT

1. Preliminary work:

1.1. Discovery and recovery of the skull and transfer to Ireland.

In 2008 a friend gave me a few photographs of a dead Iberian wolf that had been run over on a road.

The wolf had been later buried there by a group of police officers. We knew where the exact spot was and a few months later we unearthed the body and took the skull.

In February 2013, the skull was transferred to Ireland, where it is today.

In March 2014, the first contacts were made in Ireland to present the idea and draw up the proposal.

Below, images of the dead wolf at the place where it was buried.

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