North Brunswick Street Dublin

Laid out in 1766 and formerly known as Channel Row after a channel which connected with the nearby Bradogue River. Now mainly apartment blocks developed on the site of three of Dublin’s most historic hospitals: the Brunswick, the Richmond and the Hardwicke. Each of the three hospitals specialised in different disciplines and were closed in the 1980s with the opening of the Beaumont Hospital near Glasnevin.

1803 – Former Hardwicke Fever Hospital, Morning Star Ave., Dublin

“Fevers of one form or another were endemic in the city at this time and in the House of Industry epidemics were frequent and devastating.

1810 – Richmond Surgical Hospital, North Brunswick Street, Dublin

A former convent on North Brunswick Street converted and extended into a surgical hospital around 1810.

1816 – Former Whitworth Hospital, Morning Star Ave., Dublin

“Parliament was again petitioned successfully by the Governors [of the North Union] in 1815.

1840 – North Dublin Union Workhouse, Grangegorman, Dublin

Architect: Francis Johnston, William Murray, George Wilkinson

Following an Act of Parliament in 1772,

1864 – Carmichael School of Medicine, North Brunswick Street, Dublin

Architect: J.E. Rogers

Designed in 1864 as a school of medicine beside the three northside hospitals (Brunswick,

1893 – Hospital for Infectious Diseases, North Brunswick St., Dublin

Architect: J. Rawson Carroll

Constructed incase of a public health emergency.

1901 – Former Richmond Surgical Hospital, North Brunswick Street, Dublin

Architect: Carroll & Batchelor

In 1810 a former convent became part of the Grangegorman House of Industry (workhouse) who commissioned a hospital to care for the ‘ruptured poor’.