1748 – Rotunda Hospital, Parnell Square, Dublin
The Rotunda Hospital, officially the Dublin Lying-in Hospital, was the first maternity hospital in Britain or Ireland,
The Rotunda Hospital, officially the Dublin Lying-in Hospital, was the first maternity hospital in Britain or Ireland,
Originally Rutland Square, which referred to the park in the centre and the second earliest of Dublin’s squares. The surrounding streets were known as Charlemont Row,
Lord Charlemont had met and befriended Sir William Chambers in Italy while Chambers was studying roman antiquities and Charlemont was on a collecting trip.
Lord Charlemont had met and befriended Sir William Chambers in Italy while Chambers was studying roman antiquities and Charlemont was on a collecting trip.
No. 20 Parnell Square was built by the plumber T. Sherwood, who acquired the site in 1765 and completed the building in 1769.
In the 1860s the growth of the Presbyterian congregation and a substantial increase in rent on the Mary’s Abbey property made it desirable for the congregation to seek new premises.
A smaller exhibition held in the gardens of the Rotunda Hospital. The manufactured good were mainly of the cottage craft industry while the artistic works exhibited were mainly by Irish artists.
Constructed as the Auxiliary hospital, later the Thomas Plunket Cairnes wing. The architect Albert E.
Taken over by the Dublin Catholic Cemeteries Committee in 1894, they had moved in by mid 1895,
A temporary prefabricated construction on what was left of the Rotunda gardens, and now the site of the Garden of Remembrance.