lunaticasylum

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Yes, where the airport was.

Yes the more northerly Mutts started as an USAF base .... and a dog kennel

St. Brigid’s Hospital
“The Connaught District Lunatic Asylum at Ballinasloe, which opened its doors in November 1833, initially served counties Galway, Roscommon, Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim, and was established under the Lunacy (Ireland) Act of 1821. It was one of 22 such institutions built between 1810 and 1870. The architect was William Murray, whose design was influenced by the panopticon concept devised by the Utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham. The principle behind this layout was to enable the manager and his staff to occupy a central structure with radiating wings from which they could monitor and administer life within the institution. This arrangement allowed the wings to be viewed from the centre, while access was only possible from one wing to the others by passing through the centre.”

Isn’t that the same design used in many prisons, which of course this also was?

Why were there so many of these places back then, and so few today?
Were they really prisons for the unwanted?

Creepy.


More info here

www.ballinasloe.ie/news/st-brigids-hospital-a-history

You can enter, but cannot leave

maps.app.goo.gl/s35px1tQPFU4wR8t9?g_st=ic

Explore, if you dare

www.bcd-urbex.com/st-brigids-asylum-ballinasloe-ireland/

National Library of Ireland on The Commons - "... with boys sprinkled like raisins in a currant bun ..." A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle. Oscar Wilde

Opened in 1865, 'Enniscorthy District Lunatic Asylum for the Insane and Poor of Mind' otherwise was known as St Senan's psychiatric hospital www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&... There are too many trees to get a clear Streetview www.google.ie/maps/@52.4874776,-6.5656767,3a,50.8y,53.78h... The photograph was taken from the bank of the River Slaney looking East. maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,697254,638429,10,9 The saplings look to be about 3-5 years old and if planted when building completed would date picture late 1860's

More about it here www.independent.ie/regionals/enniscorthyguardian/news/st-...

I was going to say these designs almost seemed to have bought off the peg. The Downshire Hospital in Downpatrick is an equally majestic building, and screened by trees like this one.

W.L and Co. was there a few years later. The same trees are well on. catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000326204

What was going on at 12:35 ? The clock is in a cage!

Spot the Differences - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000320246

“Carlow District Lunatic Asylum admitted its first patient on 7 May 1832 and initially served the counties of Carlow, Kildare, Wexford and Kilkenny, and the city of Kilkenny. The Asylum District changed twice: in 1852 and 1868, asylums opened to cater for Kilkenny and Wexford patients, respectively. After 1868 then, Carlow District Lunatic Asylum catered only for Carlow and Kildare patients. From the enactment of the Local Government Act, 1925, Carlow District Lunatic Asylum became known as Carlow District Mental Hospital. It became known by its current name, St Dympna’s Hospital, in 1958.”

There is another photo from the right, also at 12:35, but no people, Perhaps the clock was not working? - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000320245

Via Delany Archive Ireland

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