The Armagh Community Hospital is a health facility at Tower Hill,

Armagh Armagh ( ; ga, Ard Mhacha, , "Macha's height") is the county town of County Armagh and a city in Northern Ireland, as well as a civil parish. It is the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland – the seat of the Archbishops of Armagh, the Pri ...

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. It is managed by the

Southern Health and Social Care Trust The Southern Health and Social Care Trust (Irish: ) provides health and social care services in Northern Ireland. It runs Craigavon Area Hospital, Daisy Hill Hospital in Newry, Lurgan Hospital and South Tyrone Hospital as well as Armagh Commun ...

. The Armagh Workhouse was once the largest such facility in

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History

The facility has its origins in the Armagh Union Workhouse which was designed by George Wilkinson and was completed in December 1841. After joining the

National Health Service The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). Since 1948, they have been funded out of general taxation. There are three systems which are referred to using the " ...

as Tower Hill Hospital in 1948, it evolved to become Armagh Community Hospital. The old workhouse infirmary, known as Riverside House, which became the headquarters of the headquarters of the local health and social services board in the 1990s, was marketed for sale in May 2016.

References

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