Richmond Surgical Hospital | |
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Entrance to the Richmond Surgical Hospital | |
Geography | |
Location | Grangegorman, Dublin, Ireland |
Coordinates | 53°21′04″N 6°16′43″W / 53.3511°N 6.2786°W |
Organisation | |
Type | General hospital |
History | |
Opened | 1810 |
Closed | 1987 |
The Richmond Surgical Hospital ( Irish: Ospidéal Máinliachta Richmond) was a general hospital in Grangegorman, Dublin, Ireland.
The building has its origins in a convent constructed by some Benedictine nuns in 1688. [1] It became part of the House of Industry who commissioned a hospital to care for the 'ruptured poor'; it opened in 1810. [1] The hospital was completely rebuilt to a design by Carroll & Batchelor in the English Renaissance style in red brick and terracotta tiles and was officially opened by Earl Cadogan, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in April 1901. [2] After services transferred to the Beaumont Hospital, the Richmond Surgical Hospital closed in 1987. [1]
In the early 1990s the building was acquired by businessman Rory O'Meara who, in 1996, converted it into a courthouse. [3] Then in 2013 it was acquired by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation which, in 2018, converted it into an education and event centre. [1]