St. Kevin's Hospital is on fire

Ciano35

Just seen on Redfm on facebook now.

boardsuser1

I was there, the fire is spreading rapidly through the building.

Ciano35

KC161 wrote: »

I was there, the fire is spreading rapidly through the building.

does it look like the place will be ruined?

boardsuser1

Ciano35 wrote: »

does it look like the place will be ruined?

Same as the good shepherd I reckon sadly, the fire is still spreading.

boardsuser1

Earlier

Junkyard Tom

Drone footage.

https://m.facebook.com/corksafetyalerts/posts/1072062186257907

Milly33

what a surprise

Surreptitious

It's very sad. People with no respect for the building destroying it.

Avatar MIA

Drone footage very good. Not the first fire there. Deliberate or accidental by squatters?

Walked around the inside a couple of years back. Very creepy

boardsuser1

The entire building is going to be gutted. I'm looking out my back door now and she's still burning heavily.

Roger Hassenforder

Avatar MIA wrote: »

Drone footage very good. Not the first fire there. Deliberate or accidental by squatters?

Walked around the inside a couple of years back. Very creepy

Heard from the wife's friend above it near mile stream kids spotted running away from it before flames noticed.

What a shame. Fire fighters risking their lives to try and save a beautiful derelict old building that has been idle years. It's a pity it want turned into something (hotel) before now. Now it's fcuked.

Xenji

It's always terrible to see old buildings like that go and putting emergency services at risk, but it did have a very sinister history.

Junkyard Tom

Looks like the firefighters are staying away from the front-middle of the building as a precaution against collapse.

gctest50

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

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Fire fighters risking their lives to try ......

They're standing there watching it burn ( well as soon as the realised they were pissing against the wind )

Roger Hassenforder

Xenji wrote: »

It's always terrible to see old buildings like that go and putting emergency services at risk, but it did have a very sinister history.

Just reading up on it there. Maybe you're right, better off the cursed place gone

Spooky place:
http://www.abandonedireland.com/skv.html

Roger Hassenforder

gctest50 wrote: »

They're standing there watching it burn ( well as soon as the realised they were pissing against the wind )

They were earlier!

Good riddance to a glorified prison that ruined so many lives.
Hopefully none of the firefighters had to venture inside.

leeside11

It's a really interesting and creepy set of buildings. They basically packed it with severely mentally ill people and threw away the key. There are some horrible stories around about the conditions there.

whisky_galore

If we had to raze every old building that bad sh*t went on in there wouldn't be a whole lot of them left.

Can't do a Taliban job, destroying old buildings and pretending it didn't happen.

It could potentially have been a useful building, could have actually housed people.
Now it's fcuk all use, a smouldering shell.

mastershake

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

Xenji wrote: »

It's always terrible to see old buildings like that go and putting emergency services at risk, but it did have a very sinister history.

Just reading up on it there. Maybe you're right, better off the cursed place gone

Spooky place:
http://www.abandonedireland.com/skv.html

You do realise that your equating a building to a living thing there.The building didn't make a conscious decision to lock people up.
Unfortunately Ireland's indifference to its built heritage continues.

boardsuser1

whisky_galore wrote: »

If we had to raze every old building that bad sh*t went on in there wouldn't be a whole lot of them left.

Can't do a Taliban job, destroying old buildings and pretending it didn't happen.

It could potentially have been a useful building, could have actually housed people.
Now it's fcuk all use, a smouldering shell.

Let's hope it's structurally sound, so that it may get redeveloped.

Can't find any photos taken since first light today.

whisky_galore

KC161 wrote: »

Let's hope it's structurally sound, so that it may get redeveloped.

Can't find any photos taken since first light today.

I wouldn't hold out too much hope for an old, tall red brick building that's been roasted like that, all the floors burnt away.

We can't even be bothered rebuilding the shabby buildings, let alone an incinerated one.

pwurple

KC161 wrote: »

Let's hope it's structurally sound, so that it may get redeveloped.

Can't find any photos taken since first light today.

Everything structural in that building is made of wood, look at the age of it.

Every rafter and board in the place will be burnt. This is a demolition notice. Which will cost us more by the way, and mean less services, less playgrounds, worse road conditions because the budget got eaten by this waste.

This absolutely disgusts me. For all the hand-wringing about govt not doing something, it's still some little scrote who went up there and lit that fire. I'd dangle him by his tiny balls off the side of it.

This, Vernon mount... why don't people have any civic pride in our iconic city buildings? These are Cork's pyramids, our empire state building.

whisky_galore

pwurple wrote: »

This, Vernon mount... why don't people have any civic pride in our iconic city buildings? These are Cork's pyramids, our empire state building.

Vernon Mount was a massive loss, but I'll wager it'll never be rebuilt.

The city is full of rotting, boarded up, rat infested buildings like a mini Detroit.

People in this country, high up or low down, simply don't care.

gctest50

pwurple wrote: »

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This is a demolition notice. Which will cost us more by the way, and mean less services, less playgrounds, worse road conditions because the budget got eaten by this waste.

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It has cost plenty, should have flattened it years ago :

The hospital has recently been the focus of some media attention due to the revelation by Health Minister Mary Harney that between 2002 and 2007, Euro 1,590,975 had been spent on security at the site amounting to more than Euro 300,000 a year, or nearly Euro 6,000 a week.

pwurple wrote: »

...Everything structural in that building is made of wood, look at the age of it.This is a demolition notice. ...

Probably as well off, could be too costly/difficult to make it fire safe

Anyway if they flatten it and rebuild something nice, in a hundred years they'll be saying "look at that fine building they built back in 2018"

whisky_galore

gctest50 wrote: »

Anyway if they flatten it and rebuild something nice, in a hundred years they'll be saying "look at that fine building they built back in 2018"

LOL!

There's precious few things built now that look nice.

The ubiquitous glass box or something with a really expensive price tag that manages to look cheap. One thing is for sure, it'll never be a Mount Vernon.

leeside11

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

Just reading up on it there. Maybe you're right, better off the cursed place gone

Spooky place:
http://www.abandonedireland.com/skv.html

My dad used to deliver food up there in 1950s , he used to see the patients out in the field pulling turnips out of the ground and eating them. They were wretched conditions up there.

Sephiroth_dude

Could you actually get into the building? or was there security on site 24/7?

leeside11

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Could you actually get into the building? or was there security on site 24/7?

You could find a way in around the back somewhere.
Loads of videos on YouTube

Belle E. Flops

Drone footage of it today.

What is wrong with these people!?

Roger Hassenforder

mastershake wrote: »

You do realise that your equating a building to a living thing there.The building didn't make a conscious decision to lock people up.
Unfortunately Ireland's indifference to its built heritage continues.

Thanks for the schooling! I hadnt realised calling a building spooky would equate it to a living thing, There was I thinking the building drove around collecting the mentally unwell of cork and transporting them there, and keeping then there.

It was of such cultural heritage it was left fall apart and rot. That was Irelands indifference to its built heritage. More indifference was (from what I've read up on it overnight) the fact it was a moniment to suffering, misery, neglect, torture and degradation of human beings abandoned by society.
Maybe your cultural outrage might be more appropriately directed towards people, seeing as you're the expert on living things!