St Luke's Hospital ( ga, Ospidéal Naomh Lúcás) is a

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History

The hospital, which was designed by Francis Johnston and William Murphy, opened as the Armagh Asylum in 1825. It expanded with the opening of the Hill Building in 1898. Following the introduction of

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in the early 1980s the hospital went into a period of decline and various facilities including inpatient dementia care and inpatient addiction services have been progressively withdrawn.

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* Southern Health and Social Care Trust Health and Social Care (Northern Ireland) hospitals Hospitals in County Armagh Hospitals established in 1825 Hospital buildings completed in 1825 Psychiatric hospitals in Northern Ireland 19th-century architecture in Northern Ireland {{UK-hospital-stub