St. Otteran's Hospital ( ga, Ospidéal Naomh Otteran) is a psychiatric hospital in Waterford,

County Waterford County Waterford ( ga, Contae Phort Láirge) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and is part of the South-East Region, Ireland, South-East Region. It is named ...

, Ireland.

History

The hospital, which was designed by Francis Johnston and William Murphy, opened as the Waterford Asylum in 1835. It became Waterford Mental Hospital in the 1920s and went on to become St. Otteran's Hospital in the 1950s. It is named after local patron

Saint Otteran Oran or Odran (Gaelic ''Oran''/''Odran''/''Odhrán'', the ''dh'' being silent; Latin ''Otteranus'', hence sometimes Otteran; died AD 548), by tradition a descendant of Conall Gulban, was a companion of Saint Columba in Iona, and the first Chr ...

. After the introduction of deinstitutionalisation in the late 1980s the hospital went into a period of decline. However, despite calls for its closure, some long-stay residents remain in the hospital and the Health Service Executive uses it as a base to provide social inclusion services.

References

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