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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

Congratulation for your beautiful Album.

You'd have to think prison or, as they were known back then, lunatic asylum with all the bars on the upper floor windows.

I am leaning towards a hospital. STP_0436 next door is a reverse view.

Drawing a blank at the NIAH so far, possibly gone or North of the border...

It looks like this, except it seems to have an extra floor: www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&...

From the small shrubs and tree plantings, this photo must be near the time the hospital was built.

"The layout of the grounds was commenced by Dr Chisolm Ross in 1895, but the great variety of trees and shrub found in them is due to the personal efforts of the forth medical supt Dr Moffitt. He obtained specimens all over the world at his own expense. The willows on the banks of the Wollindilly River pre-date the hospital period and have been struck from a cutting of the willow which shaded napoleons grave on St Helena."
From the-riotact.com/a-brief-lesson-in-almost-local-history-ke... by 'danman', who also has a great set of Kenmore Hospital photos here on Flickr - www.flickr.com/photos/danman_cc/sets/72157617333069701/

So date ca. 1900?

beachcomber australia According to the NSW Heriatge Resgiter, Kenmore was built between 1894-1900. This and your notes re the planting make a pretty good case for this image being 1900 or the early 1900's.
www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/07_subnav_01_2.cfm?itemid=3540469
-AG

Sad place. My mother was a nurses aid here during the 60s.

Hi. I am interested in speaking to any one who used to work there. Can you please contact me on rachel [at] bigbubblemedia [dot] com and then I can tell you more about my project?

Thank you

Rachel