1915 – Cottage Hospital, Talbot’s Inch, Co. Kilkenny

Known as Aut Even hospital. A small cottage hospital designed around a central two-storey administrative block from which radiate four single storey wings. Talbot’s Inch was developed as a model village to improve the living conditions of workers employed at the Kilkenny Woodworkers Company and the Greenvale Woollen Mills. Designed in 1914 for the Dowager Countess of Desart. Opened 1915. Its most visible architectural feature is the large entrance arch with a pair of carved doors from the Kilkenny Woodworkers’ Company which had been founded by Lady Desart’s brother-in-law, Otway Cuffe. Now surrounded by a larger private hospital complex.