St. Mary's Hospital (Irish: Ospidéal Naomh Mhuire) was a psychiatric hospital in Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland.
| St. Mary's Hospital | |
|---|---|
| Health Service Executive | |
 St. Mary's Hospital | |
  Shown in Ireland | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland |
| Coordinates | 53°50′59″N 9°18′19″W / 53.84978°N 9.30523°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | HSE |
| Type | Specialist |
| Services | |
| Speciality | Psychiatric hospital |
| History | |
| Opened | 1833 |
| Closed | 2006 |
History
editThe 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
edit- ^ a b c "Castlebar District Lunatic Asylum, Castlebar, County Mayo". National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
- ^ a b c "Remembering St Mary's". Mayo News. 24 June 2008. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
- ^ "After the Asylum". Irish Times. 13 July 2013. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
- ^ 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.