A heartwarming video has emerged of a cow and its newborn calf being rescued from a lake in County Meath, Ireland after spending two months marooned on an island.

The video, captured on Saturday, shows a rescue team bringing the two animals back to shore after the adult disappeared in late July.

According to local reports, the owner's neighbour spotted the missing cow stranded on a tiny island in the Breakey Lough.

A local man then took a boat to deliver food to the animal, and was amazed to discover that it had given birth while on the island.

A week later, a rescue organisation managed to successfully bring the cow and its calf back onto safe ground.

“I was utterly perplexed as to where she had got to, I had feared the worst," the cow's owner told a local news organisation.

“She was gone so long I had to give up on her. I am delighted and very surprised to have her back and to have the puzzle solved," he added.

This cow went missing late July and everyone was certain that he wasn't going to be seen again,then to everyone's suprise she was spotted on a small island in a lake the video is of the rescue of the cow and her young calf that she have birth to on the island.