Dublin City Hospital
The hospital was first established by a group of doctors from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland as the Baggot Street Hospital in 1832. In the early years of the hospital attending consultant surgeons included the anatomist John Houston. The hospital was extended and the current façade of red brick and terracotta tiles was added, based on the designs of Albert Edward Murray, in 1893. It was renamed the Royal City of Dublin Hospital following a visit by Princess Alexandra in 1900. After services were transferred to St. James's Hospital, the hospital closed in 1986. Although the building continued to be used for community services, the Health Service Executive decided in March 2019 to make renewed efforts to dispose of it. The Health Service Executive indicated that it intends to lease back part of the building in order to ensure continued provision of primary care services.
Filling in the mysterious cracks with this one. After arriving at Dublin airport sometime after midnight, tackling Ringsend through the night and early morning, before we visited Glenmaroon House in the afternoon before Ubering back to the airport, myself and @DustySensorPhotography shuffled like zombies across the city to this hospital I pinned earlier in the year. Only posting the report now because I have reason to believe this relatively intact building will get ran through fairly soon, insert the dusty mother line, because it got posted on Irish tiktok on a strange 'Top 5 abandoned spots in Dublin' post, although it hadn't been done by anyone as far as we're concerned. The short is sat on 126,000 views, and with it's city-centre location, its unlikely she has long. The only upside is that we think it has sensors that were switched off when we went, because of active construction work in one of the rear buildings onsite. I simply have to get my 28dl clout for incredible unseen find when I can.
Anyhow, it was a cracking little explore. Haven't seen a large, city hospital so untouched for a long time, so it made sense we had to travel overseas to come across it. Lots of colour, natural decay, old architecture and rooms crammed with stuff to look at. It was a big shame that the imposing operating theatres on the upper floors had been converted into offices in the 90s, otherwise it could be well up there for me. The power working throughout was a nice bonus.
Starting with the main entrance of the grand building.
Floor was really cute. Rest of ground floor was freshly boarded, modernised boardrooms, so we headed upstairs. It stayed pretty modern, with these areas having been used as council offices for the last twenty years.
Mouldy kitchen.
Physiotherapy. Was a treadmill and mock stairs.
Downstairs in the basement, things started to get a lot more interesting.
X-ray.
Old ward.
Moving out of the main building, where we had the most hope, it turned out that little had been changed and most rooms still contained bits from the hospital's treatment period, which had probably concluded between 2010-2015 from paperwork and calendars we found.
Pharmacy.
Lots of old treatment rooms, sadly without too much medical equipment left. However, the abundance of skylights was nice.
Upstairs offices all abundant with belongings and paperwork.
Resurgence starts now.
Thanks for reading
The hospital was first established by a group of doctors from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland as the Baggot Street Hospital in 1832. In the early years of the hospital attending consultant surgeons included the anatomist John Houston. The hospital was extended and the current façade of red brick and terracotta tiles was added, based on the designs of Albert Edward Murray, in 1893. It was renamed the Royal City of Dublin Hospital following a visit by Princess Alexandra in 1900. After services were transferred to St. James's Hospital, the hospital closed in 1986. Although the building continued to be used for community services, the Health Service Executive decided in March 2019 to make renewed efforts to dispose of it. The Health Service Executive indicated that it intends to lease back part of the building in order to ensure continued provision of primary care services.
Filling in the mysterious cracks with this one. After arriving at Dublin airport sometime after midnight, tackling Ringsend through the night and early morning, before we visited Glenmaroon House in the afternoon before Ubering back to the airport, myself and @DustySensorPhotography shuffled like zombies across the city to this hospital I pinned earlier in the year. Only posting the report now because I have reason to believe this relatively intact building will get ran through fairly soon, insert the dusty mother line, because it got posted on Irish tiktok on a strange 'Top 5 abandoned spots in Dublin' post, although it hadn't been done by anyone as far as we're concerned. The short is sat on 126,000 views, and with it's city-centre location, its unlikely she has long. The only upside is that we think it has sensors that were switched off when we went, because of active construction work in one of the rear buildings onsite. I simply have to get my 28dl clout for incredible unseen find when I can.
Anyhow, it was a cracking little explore. Haven't seen a large, city hospital so untouched for a long time, so it made sense we had to travel overseas to come across it. Lots of colour, natural decay, old architecture and rooms crammed with stuff to look at. It was a big shame that the imposing operating theatres on the upper floors had been converted into offices in the 90s, otherwise it could be well up there for me. The power working throughout was a nice bonus.
Starting with the main entrance of the grand building.
Floor was really cute. Rest of ground floor was freshly boarded, modernised boardrooms, so we headed upstairs. It stayed pretty modern, with these areas having been used as council offices for the last twenty years.
Mouldy kitchen.
Physiotherapy. Was a treadmill and mock stairs.
Downstairs in the basement, things started to get a lot more interesting.
X-ray.
Old ward.
Moving out of the main building, where we had the most hope, it turned out that little had been changed and most rooms still contained bits from the hospital's treatment period, which had probably concluded between 2010-2015 from paperwork and calendars we found.
Pharmacy.
Lots of old treatment rooms, sadly without too much medical equipment left. However, the abundance of skylights was nice.
Upstairs offices all abundant with belongings and paperwork.
Resurgence starts now.
Thanks for reading
