Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hospital
County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Royal Hospital Infirmary
- Latest-edition OS map
- Royal Hospital Infirmary
- Coordinates
- 53.34530, -6.29546
- SMR number
- DU018-020292-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
American Geographical Society Library, UW-MilwaukeeLionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1900 · Large scale plan of Dublin. (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library)
- 1908 · Dublin, Ireland 1908 (American Geographical Society Library, UW-Milwaukee)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Dunton (1982, 77) wrote the following account about the Infirmary at the Royakl Hosptial Kilmainham; Without the wall nearer to the river stands the Infirmary in which also the steward of the hospital and his family dwell'. Infirmary building described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) as a; 'two-storey infirmary, built c.1730, comprising five-bay block, attached by lower single-bay block to six-bay recessed block to south, two-bay gable-fronted addition to front (west) elevation of block to south, single-storey three-bay range set perpendicular to main ranges. Breakfront to front of main block. Multiple later extensions to rear (east) elevation. Now disused. Like the nearby Dr Steevens’s Hospital, this complex of infirmary building was designed by Thomas Burgh, and was associated with the nearby Royal Hospital Kilmainham, forming part of an institutional group' (https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/50080082/royal-hospital-kilmainham-military-road-saint-johns-road-dublin-8-dublin; NIAH reg. No. 50080082).
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 12 June 2023
References
Dunton, J. 1982 Teague Land, Or, A Merry Ramble to the Wild Irish: Letters from Ireland, 1698. Irish Academic Press. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hospitalunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.