St. Mary's Hospital, Castlebar

St. Mary's Hospital
Health Service Executive
St. Mary's Hospital
St. Mary's Hospital, Castlebar is located in Ireland
St. Mary's Hospital, Castlebar
Shown in Ireland
Geography
LocationCastlebar, County Mayo, Ireland
Coordinates53°50′59″N 9°18′19″W / 53.84978°N 9.30523°W / 53.84978; -9.30523
Organisation
Care systemHSE
TypeSpecialist
Services
SpecialityPsychiatric hospital
History
Opened1833
Closed2006

St. Mary's Hospital (Irish: Ospidéal Naomh Mhuire) was a psychiatric hospital in Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland.

History

The hospital, which was designed by George Wilkinson opened as the Castlebar Asylum in 1866.[1] It was extended in the late 1890s.[1] It became the Castlebar Mental Hospital in the 1920s and it went on to become St. Mary's Hospital in the 1950s.[1]

Pádraig Flynn, Minister of State at the Department of Transport, officially opened a new Industrial Therapy Unit in May 1981.[2] After the introduction of deinstitutionalisation in the late 1980s the hospital went into a period of decline[3][4] and closed in 2006.[2] The building was converted for use as the Mayo Campus of the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology in 1994.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Castlebar District Lunatic Asylum, Castlebar, County Mayo". National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "Remembering St Mary's". Mayo News. 24 June 2008. Retrieved 29 May 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.