Gardai tonight recovered valuables at the former home of the Dublin criminal Martin Cahill.
The house in Cowper Downes in Rathmines was seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau last March.
Officers were clearing the house for sale when they uncovered a bag of valuables buried in the back garden.
It contained silverware and a number of chalices, believed to have been stolen from a Dublin church.
A Garda spokesman said the silverware had been taken to Rathmines Garda station, where officers would attempt to return it to its original owners.
It is understood that the Criminal Assets Bureau have decided to dig up the front and back gardens to search for some of the proceeds of from Cahill's heists and robberies.
Cahill, who was known as the General, brought the home at Cowper Downs in 1984, paying IR£80,000 punts in cash.
It is now estimated to be worth almost €1 million. Cahill was shot dead outside his house in August 1994.
He was involved in the robbery of IR£2 million of jewels, diamond and gold at the O'Connor's jewellery factory in Harold's Cross in Dublin in 1983, the stealing of priceless works of art from Russborough House in Wicklow in 1986 and a series of other crimes.