Bantry General Hospital ( ga, Ospidéal Ginearálta Bheanntraí) is a public hospital located in
Bantry
Bantry () is a town in the civil parish of Kilmocomoge in the barony of Bantry on the southwest coast of County Cork, Ireland. It lies in West Cork at the head of Bantry Bay, a deep-water gulf extending for to the west. The Beara Peninsula is ...
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County Cork
County Cork ( ga, Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns are ...
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Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...
. It is managed by
South/Southwest Hospital Group.
History
The hospital has its origins in the Bantry Union Workhouse and Infirmary which was designed by
George Wilkinson and opened in 1845.
Bantry General Hospital was built on the site in 1959.
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Services
The hospital provides 104 beds, of which 80 are in-patient acute beds, while 6 are reserved for acute day cases.
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1959 establishments in Ireland
Bantry
Health Service Executive hospitals
Hospitals established in 1959
Hospitals in County Cork
Hospital buildings completed in 1959