The Moyle Hospital is a health facility in Gloucester Avenue,

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. It is managed by the

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History

The facility has its origins in the Larne Union Workhouse which was designed by George Wilkinson and was completed in October 1842. It became Larne District Hospital in 1929 and, after joining the

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in 1948, became known as Moyle Hospital. X-Ray services were suspended at the hospital in January 2017.

References

Northern Health and Social Care Trust Hospitals established in 1842 1842 establishments in Ireland Hospital buildings completed in 1842 Health and Social Care (Northern Ireland) hospitals Hospitals in County Antrim {{UK-hospital-stub