8 thoughts on “Sure Where Whoo-ooo’d You Get It?”

  2. Niamh

    I had no idea the Meath hospital was still there. Amazo. I think some very famous old world folk died there. James Clarence Mangan definitely.

    1. Holden

      “A charity mugger once tried to enroll me. I ate his liver with some Batchelor’s beans and a nice Buckfast.”

  4. Smith

    I think any modern functioning hospital would be the perfect setting for a horror movie these days.

  5. Basque frog

    Errrr… the Meath Hospital may not be there in name, but the building is not “abandoned” — it has been a bustling and wide-ranging medical services hub for years. GP practices, Physio Services, Gay Men’s Health Centre, Pharmacy… and tons of other public and private health services are available there.

    The oldest part of the building (discounting the gorgeous original neoclasical entrance, now near the ‘back’ of the complex), featuring that spectacular chimney and the wooden side of the building next to it in that great photograph, are not in use.

    While they have the melancholy charm (or horror movie appeal… ) (you say potaito…) of many unused old architectural features, it would be great if the council took on their restoration. That area is full of absolutely wonderful architecture, much of it rather ‘cinematic’ too, from the playful design of the council flats down the road, to the newyorkesque firescape-adorned Georgian beauty facing the old Meath…

    (…never mind Marsh’s curb –nicest st in Dublin?–, the graffiti heaven behind Wheelan’s, the Carnegie Library–now featuring a slide inside the Children’s section–, the cemetery playground off Long Alley, the heart-lifting bamboo-jungled Daintree Building courtyard… etc etc etc).

    For the record, the once modellic Adelaide Hospital, across the road from the old Meath Hospital, did disappear without a trace…

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