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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Clare McCarthy

Incredible footage shows 'mini tornado' hitting Cork farm sending cows running

An incredible video captured a very strange weather event happening in Ireland on Saturday.

Elaine Pilkinton in Cork filmed what appears to be a 'mini-tornado' hitting a farm with frightened cows running across a field.

This clip, which is taken from her back garden in Ballincollig, was shared with weather expert Alan O'Reilly who runs Carlow Weather Twitter account.

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He uploaded the video to Twitter, writing: "Video sent in from Ballincollig Cork today of a possible tornado! Anyone else in that area spot it or any reports of damage?"

The footage shows cattle scattering in a field as a twister-style phenomenon stretching from the sky to the ground as it moves across the horizon.

The clip of the 'tornado' lasts 20 seconds and has already been viewed over 70k times on Twitter.

People responded to the strange video with one person writing: "Jaysus!! ; We spotted a really well formed funnel cloud outside Bunratty/Shannon this afternoon. Must’ve been the day for it."

A second replied: "Wow, look at all the cows running off in panic !!"

Another person joked: "Them cows are on the moooove away from it"

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