Ballamona Hospital was an asylum located in

Braddan Braddan ( gv, Braddan) is one of the seventeen parishes of the Isle of Man. It is located on the east of the island (part of the traditional ''South Side'' division) in the sheading of Middle. Administratively, a small part of the historic p ...

, Isle of Man. It was known as the Isle of Man Lunatic Asylum until 1934 when it became the Isle of Man Mental Hospital. From 1955 it was known as Ballamona Hospital. It was built in 1868, then called the Mental Hospital, and 76 patients were admitted. In 1925 there were 254 patients at the hospital with a further 65 at the nearby Home for the Poor. In 1948, there were 345 beds, and it had a farm and market gardens where patients worked. There was an annexe, Ard Aalin, for voluntary patients. It was renamed Ballamona Hospital on the establishment of the health service. It was demolished in 1998, to make way make way for the new Noble's Hospital installations.

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