1940
Dublin
Grangegorman
Lost Dublin
nurses homes
Vincent Kelly (1895-1975)
1940 – Former Nurses’ Home, Grangegorman, Dublin
Architect: Vincent Kelly
Enormous nurses’ home built for St. Brendan’s Hospital in 1937-40, and further enlarged in 1949. A U-plan seventeen-bay five-storey building with eight bays on the side elevations. St. Brendan’s Hospital was formerly the Richmond District Lunatic Asylum, the population of the site rose from c. 283 patients in the 1850s to c. 2,000 patients by the 1940s, hence the need for this huge home. There was a figurative carved panel over the main entrance. Demolished in 2013.
Published October 4, 2024