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Report - St Ita's Hospital, Ireland - Jan 2018

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urbanchemist

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More Irish tourism, this time St. Ita’s Asylum in Portrane. For background see the previous report by Camera Shy et al https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/st-itas-hospital-portrane-asylum-ireland-july-2016.t106458. This is a large place and not all of it is abandoned - there are apparently still some patients (hence security and cameras) and building work is going on in other sections. We went for a fairly random wander getting into at least three of the main blocks, which is still however only a fraction of the place. So what did we find? Well big rooms - check, long corridors - check, peely paint - double-check, and that’s about it really. It was all very, very empty. There was some hospital furniture behind glass in a locked room on the southern side, but that was all. The fun here was really in the explore, and getting away with it. If going again I would bring a map since phone reception was rather poor, and food - we were only inside for a couple of hrs, but could/should have stayed all day. Visited with junior.

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We ended up outside rather than inside the clocktower unfortunately, so that still needs looking at. The pic on the right is one of the smaller towers - nothing in the attic except pigeons.

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Speed

Got Epic?
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Nice little mooch. Did you manage to avoid the security ok? They seem quite on it nowerdays.

We had a tour round last year and got to see some of the highlights. Place really is epic on a stick!
 

dweeb

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Amazing!

Were the chapel(s) still kept under lock and key then?

Shame about the tower, it'll be epic up there for sure. Oh, awesome sign!!
 

Fuzzball

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Ireland definitely has the last best preserved examples of asylums now. St Ita's popped up in an episode of Victorian drama "Ripper Street" (S1 E4). The exterior of admin, the admin entrance and one of the main corridors were filmed in with St Ita's standing-in for a fictional East London asylum. The ward, patient cell and electro-shock room featured in the episode were filmed back at Clancy Barracks in Dublin though, I believe.

I should imagine that Ita's is being converted now, as its fairly close to Dublin. I'd like to find out when lockdown ends.

Thanks for posting, fantastic pictures and so many too! Really gives the scale of the place.
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chills

Queller of the uprising
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Glad this has been bumped as I missed the premiere! That looks special! Nice job Chemist!

I know Ireland still has a few asylums but I’ve never really researched, now added to the map of pins for future reference!
 

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