St. Luke's Hospital, Clonmel

The hospital which was designed by William Murray, opened as the Clonmel Asylum in January 1835.^[1] It became Clonmel Mental Hospital in the 1920s and went on to become St. Luke's Hospital in the 1950s.^[2] After the introduction of deinstitutionalisation in the late 1980s the hospital went into a period of decline^[3][4] and, following the publication of a highly critical report in 2009,^[5] the hospital closed in December 2012.^[6][7]

• Lonergan, Eamonn (1985). St. Luke's Hospital, Clonmel, 1834-1984: a history.