St._Mary's_Hospital,_Castlebar

St. Mary's Hospital, Castlebar

St. Mary's Hospital, Castlebar

Hospital in County Mayo, Ireland

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

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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. [1]
    "Castlebar District Lunatic Asylum, Castlebar, County Mayo". National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
  2. [2]
    "Remembering St Mary's". Mayo News. 24 June 2008. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  3. [3]
    "After the Asylum". Irish Times. 13 July 2013. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  4. [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.
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