St. Davnet's Hospital
Health Service Executive
Chapels at St. Davnet's Hospital
St. Davnet's Hospital is located in Ireland
St. Davnet's Hospital
Shown in Ireland
Geography
LocationMonaghan, County Monaghan, Ireland
Coordinates54°15′04″N 6°57′30″W / 54.2510°N 6.9582°W / 54.2510; -6.9582
Organisation
Care systemHSE
TypeSpecialist
Services
SpecialityPsychiatric hospital
History
Opened1869
Links
Websitewww.hse.ie/eng/services/list/1/lho/cavanmonaghan/mental-health-services/

St. Davnet's Hospital (Irish: Ospidéal Naomh Damhnait) is a psychiatric hospital in Monaghan, County Monaghan, Republic of Ireland.

History

The hospital, which was designed by John McCurdy, was opened as the Cavan and Monaghan District Lunatic Asylum in 1869.[1][2] Two chapels were built, one for Catholic patients and the other for Protestant patients, and these were renovated by William Alphonsus Scott in 1910.[3]

The Irish republican, Peadar O'Donnell, was regarded as the first Irish person to use the term "occupation" in relation to the occupation of a workplace, when he and the staff of the hospital occupied the site in 1919. "The occupation was, in fact, the first action in Ireland to describe itself as a soviet, and the Red Flag was raised above the hospital."[4] It became Monaghan Mental Hospital in the late 1920s and St. Davnet's Hospital in the 1950s.[5]

After the introduction of deinstitutionalisation in the late 1980s the hospital went into a period of decline[6][7] and activities became focused on Blackwater House.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Saint Davnet's Hospital (Clogher House & Errigal House), Armagh Road, Monaghan, County Monaghan". National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  2. ↑ "'World Within Walls'— the history of a Monaghan institution". History Ireland. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  3. ↑ Brett, Charles (1970). Buildings of Monaghan. Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society.
  4. ↑ "Political asylum – An Irishman's Diary on mental health and the Monaghan Soviet". www.irishtimes.com. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  5. ↑ NicGabhann, Niamh (28 August 2015). "Difficult Histories". Medical Humanities. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  6. ↑ "After the Asylum". Irish Times. 13 July 2013. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  7. ↑ Cotter, Noelle (2009). "Transfer of Care? A Critical Analysis of Post-Release Psychiatric Care for Prisoners in the Cork Region" (PDF). University College Cork. p. 5. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  8. ↑ "Inspection of Monaghan's Blackwater House raises numerous concerns". Northern Sound. 12 March 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
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