An archaeological dig has been ordered in Monaghan town after a road worker found a tunnel at a location known locally as the "hospital hill".
Site supervisor Claire Ryan, who works with a private firm of archaeologists called Arch-tech brought in to do the dig, said: "It will take up to two weeks to establish the background and the age of the red-brick built tunnel, but we will stick at it and discover its origins with the help of Liam Bradley from Monaghan County Museum."
The find was just yards from the front door of the museum. It is believed that a series of tunnels run through the town from the courthouse up to what is now the county hospital, and from the Belgium Park area where the fever hospital was once situated.