1860s – Leopardstown Park House, Foxrock, Co. Dublin

Reconstructed by John Skipton Mulvany in the 1860s of a house built in 1796, for Charlotte, widow of Joseph Malcomson.

In October 1917 Gertrude Dunning gifted Leopardstown Park with its 100 acres of parkland, to the British Ministry of Pensions. Prompted by the devastation of the First World War, the gift came with a single condition – the house and its grounds were to be used to treat soldiers who had been disabled while serving with the British forces. Between 1922 and 1931, Leopardstown Park Hospital was the only in-patient facility in the Irish Free State for the treatment of shell-shocked veterans of the First World War. In 1974, when the number of British veterans in Dublin had fallen low, a private act was passed by the Oireachtas, with the agreement of the DHSS, to amend the trust deed to allow non-service patients to be admitted.