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Nutt's Corner - is up the North

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 17 older comments, and then…
  • Suck Diesel said:
    National Library of Ireland on The Commons Yes, where the airport was.
  • Foxglove said:
    Yes the more northerly Mutts started as an USAF base .... and a dog kennel
  • Suck Diesel said:
    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
  • Suck Diesel said:
    You can enter, but cannot leave

    maps.app.goo.gl/s35px1tQPFU4wR8t9?g_st=ic
  • Suck Diesel said:


    Explore, if you dare

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

A truly institutional institution!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • domenico milella said:
    Congratulation for your beautiful Album.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    You'd have to think prison or, as they were known back then, lunatic asylum with all the bars on the upper floor windows.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    I am leaning towards a hospital. STP_0436 next door is a reverse view.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Drawing a blank at the NIAH so far, possibly gone or North of the border...
  • derangedlemur said:
    It looks like this, except it seems to have an extra floor: www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&...

Doctor Atkins, District Asylum

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    We had a visit to the Waterford District Lunatic Asylum before - ... and there is Dr Ringrose Atkins in the centre (see note)
  • B-59 said:
    Atkins was Medical Superintendent. He died in 1898, aged 47 (bjp.rcpsych.org/content/44/185/453)
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Red Herring - there was a relative(?) John Ringrose Atkins, born in Dublin (1851-1908) who lived in Australia and worked in the theatre as 'Dan Barry'- adb.anu.edu.au/biography/atkins-john-ringrose-2909 .
  • oaktree_brian_1976 said:
    hard to read, but he died of a perforated appendix and a kidney stone, after two days of suffering. First had symptoms while "visiting a lady". President of the YMCA and came from a family of doctors.
  • oaktree_brian_1976 said:
    Apparently you've got a copy of his obituary. sources.nli.ie/Record/PS_UR_003448