Our Lady's Hospital ( ga, Ospidéal Mhuire) was a psychiatric hospital in

Ennis Ennis () is the county town of County Clare, in the mid-west of Ireland. The town lies on the River Fergus, north of where the river widens and enters the Shannon Estuary. Ennis is the largest town in County Clare, with a population of 25,27 ...

, County Clare, Ireland.

History

The hospital, which was designed by

William Fogerty William Fogerty, FRIAI, FRIBA, AAI was an Irish architect active in mid-nineteenth-century Limerick, London, New York City and Dublin. Born in Limerick, he studied in the early 1850s at Queen's College, Cork. He moved to Dublin in the early 1 ...

, opened as the Ennis Asylum in 1868. It became Ennis Mental Hospital in the 1920s and went on to become Our Lady's Hospital in the 1950s. After the introduction of deinstitutionalisation in the late 1980s the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in March 2002. The site, which has changed hands several times since the hospital closed, was acquired by a new developer in March 2018.

References

{{reflist Hospitals in County Clare Psychiatric hospitals in the Republic of Ireland Hospital buildings completed in 1868 1868 establishments in Ireland Hospitals established in 1868 Defunct hospitals in the Republic of Ireland 2002 disestablishments in Ireland Hospitals disestablished in 2002