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Old hospital

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  • 26-12-2011 7:33pm
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    [Deleted User]
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    Hi guys,

    What's going on by the old hospital? Some serious excavation work going on!


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    oldyouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    Hopefully it is being levelled. Serious death trap for junkies & skangers


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    McLoughlin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,909 ✭✭✭McLoughlin


    oldyouth wrote: »
    Hopefully it is being levelled. Serious death trap for junkies & skangers

    Can't be levelled "protected building" its wrapped up in so many conditions to what can and can't be done that nothing really can be done with it.


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    oldyouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    Yeah, it's protected but it shouldn't me. Like many other buildings in this country, it has gone far, far beyond being of any functional, historical or architectural value. Why people insist on flogging a dead horse surprises me. The critical time to save the old hospital was over 20 years ago.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Seems to be just to the side of it, so it might a different site.

    Blue marker is where the digging is at (I think, could be on the patch to the right).

    186348.png


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    Murtinho
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    i think there was talk of building a psych unit on it, but in reality its going to be an elderly care home, replacing the "hospital" over the ferrybank bridge. A "psych unit" created better pre election headlines.


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    will1977
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    Murtinho wrote: »
    i think there was talk of building a psych unit on it, but in reality its going to be an elderly care home, replacing the "hospital" over the ferrybank bridge. A "psych unit" created better pre election headlines.

    Ely House ? I thought it was to replace St Senans ?


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    McLoughlin
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    It took around 50 years to knock down the old old hospital in town though a small part of it remains.


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    Murtinho
    Registered Users Posts: 452 ✭✭Murtinho


    will1977 wrote: »
    Ely House ? I thought it was to replace St Senans ?

    yeah, Ely, apparently its being marketed as a new St Senans but in reality it'll be more like Ely. So im told anyway.


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    foolelle
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    McLoughlin wrote: »
    It took around 50 years to knock down the old old hospital in town though a small part of it remains.

    wheres this?


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    McLoughlin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,909 ✭✭✭McLoughlin


    foolelle wrote: »
    wheres this?

    Bottom of Hill Street just across from the entrance to the county council buildings that hospital was closed in 192/23 (opened mid 1700s) when the Irish Free State came into being and the workhouse became the new hospital part of the building in there is apart of the old old hospital which was knocked down in the 70s.


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    Zhane
    Registered Users Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭Zhane


    McLoughlin wrote: »
    Bottom of Hill Street just across from the entrance to the county council buildings that hospital was closed in 192/23 (opened mid 1700s) when the Irish Free State came into being and the workhouse became the new hospital part of the building in there is apart of the old old hospital which was knocked down in the 70s.

    Any photos of the building McLoughlin?


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