St. Kevin's Hospital

The hospital, which was originally commissioned as an annex to Our Lady's Hospital, was designed by William Henry Hill^[1] and opened in 1899.^[2] The new annex was a substantial facility in its own right and it initially accommodated 490 patients.^[2] It was renamed St. Kevin's Hospital in the mid-20th century.^[2]

After the introduction of deinstitutionalisation in the late 1980s the hospital went into a period of decline.^[3][4] However electroconvulsive therapy was still used on patients in the late 1990s^[5] and in 1999 the Inspector of Mental Hospitals reported that conditions in the hospital were "most unsatisfactory".^[5] After services transferred to Mercy University Hospital, St. Kevin's hospital closed in 2002.^[6] It subsequently became derelict and was badly damaged in a fire in 2017.^[6] In 2021 clearance from An Bord Pleanála allowed the Land Development Agency to move ahead with plans for residential development at the site.^[7]