St. Senan's Hospital
| St. Senan's Hospital | |
|---|---|
| Health Service Executive | |
 St. Senan's Hospital | |
  Shown in Ireland | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland |
| Coordinates | 52°29′19″N 6°33′51″W / 52.48857°N 6.56410°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | HSE |
| Type | Specialist |
| Services | |
| Speciality | Psychiatric hospital |
| History | |
| Opened | 1868 |
| Closed | 2015 |
St. Senan's Hospital (Irish: Ospidéal Naomh Senan) was a psychiatric hospital in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland.
History
[edit]The hospital, which was designed by James Bell and James Barry Farrell in the Italianate style, opened as the Enniscorthy Asylum in 1868.[1] It became Enniscorthy Mental Hospital in the 1920s and went on to become St. Senan's Hospital in the 1950s.[1] After the introduction of deinstitutionalisation in the late 1980s the hospital went into a period of decline[2][3] and closed completely in 2015.[4]
Planning permission for the development of private housing was granted in March 2022.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Saint Senan's Psychiatric Hospital originally Wexford County Lunatic Asylum, Enniscorthy, County Wexford". National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 30 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.
- ^ "HSE puts St Senan's psychiatric hospital on market at €780,000". Irish Times. 11 January 2017. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
- ^ "Permission granted for housing units at St Senan's". Irish Independent. 2 March 2022. Retrieved 26 September 2023.