31-inch Sligo cow to enter record books as world’s smallest

A tiny Irish cow is set to enter the record books as the smallest in the world. Ella, a Dexter cow from Sligo, stands at 31 inches — two inches shorter than the previous record holder, Swallow, from England.

Sligo farmer Henry Judge shows ‘Ear to the Ground’ presenter Ella McSweeney her tiny bovine namesake.

The diminutive bovine, which features on RTÉ’s Ear to the Ground tonight, is even dwarfed by one of the pigs at her home in Oxhill Stud, Dromore West, Co Sligo.