Close A walrus sighted on an Irish beach, on the 14th of March may have floated there from the Arctic Circle after dropping numbly on an iceberg. The young girl named Muireann is 5 years old, showed the walrus to her dad, Alan Houlihan, as they strolled on County Kerry's Valentia Island. Alan explained that he initially imagined it was a seal and then he noticed the tucks, the walrus hopped up on the rocks and it was enormous. The walrus was around the size of a cow or bull, quite likely in size. (Photo : Rutpratheep Nilpe) The Arctic Circle A lot of Odobenus rosmarus (walruses) live close to the Arctic Circle, where they prey on shellfish in deep water and clamber onto the beaches and icebergs to rest. The enormous creatures hardly crop up around the Irish shoreline. The earliest documented walrus spotting there happened in 1897, but no other walruses were discovered until the 1980s, the Irish public service broadcaster RTÉ announced. Ever since fewer than two dozen more walruses have been sighted in Ireland.