Our Lady's Hospital, Ennis

Our Lady's Hospital
Our Lady's Hospital
Shown in Ireland
Geography
Location	Ennis, County Clare, Ireland
Coordinates	52.86003°N 8.97882°W / 52.86003; -8.97882
Organisation
Type	Specialist
Services
Speciality	Psychiatric hospital
History
Opened	1868
Closed	2002

Our Lady's Hospital (Irish: Ospidéal Mhuire) was a psychiatric hospital in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland.

History

The hospital, which was designed by William Fogerty,^[1] opened as the Ennis Asylum in 1868.^[2] It became Ennis Mental Hospital in the 1920s and went on to become Our Lady's Hospital in the 1950s.^[2] After the introduction of deinstitutionalisation in the late 1980s the hospital went into a period of decline^[3][4] and closed in March 2002.^[5] The site, which has changed hands several times since the hospital closed, was acquired by a new developer in March 2018.^[6]

References

1. "William Fogerty". Archiseek. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
2. "Our Lady's Hospital, Gort Road, Ennis, County Clare". National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
3. "After the Asylum". Irish Times. 13 July 2013. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
4. Cotter, Noelle (2009). "Transfer of Care? A Critical Analysis of Post-Release Psychiatric Care for Prisoners in the Cork Region" (PDF). University College Cork. p. 5. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
5. "Oral history project launched with records of Our Lady's Hospital". Clare Archives. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
6. "Our Lady's Hospital site sold for €750,000". Clare Champion. 23 March 2018. Retrieved 2 June 2019.