To get there, you had to turn left from the main entrance to the hospital and walk for just under a mile, and it was up there on the right. In 1806 Parliament granted 2,000 from confiscated estates following the Jacobite Rising of 1745. An abandoned asylum in Ireland with many items remaining, plenty of decay and a lot of history. And being home to such a vast amount of hauntingly abandoned buildings and sites - from medieval castles to sanatoriums - it's no wonder us. The main building contractor for the mason and brickwork was D. Kirkland of Ayr, the other tradesmen were McLeod & Son, Dumbarton, wright; Auld & Sons, Ayr, plumbers and plasterers; P. & W. McLellan Ltd, Glasgow for the steel work;, Kean and Wardrop, Glasgow, tilers; Willock & Son, Ayr, painters, and J. Gibbons of Wolverhampton, ironmonger. A haunting image of a woman is one of only four surviving pictures that offering an insight into Aberdeen's former home for the mentally ill. In 1900 a new recreation hall opened but the main transformation of the site took place in the 1960s when a series of villas and other new buildings were built to the rear. Sunnyside Hospital / Montrose Asylum, Scotland. The Craighouse development at the turn of the century was also of great importance in emphasising the significance of surroundings in the cure of mental disease. 157. A third storey was added to the wings in about the 1880s. The building that housed the nurses home also accommodated the nursing school. Here I have collected together the main hospitals in Scotland that cared for people with mental illnesses and intellectual disabilities. ROYAL EDINBURGH HOSPITAL, THOMAS CLOUSTON CLINIC,CRAIGHOUSE, CRAIGHOUSE ROADOld Craighouse dates from 1565, the date appearing over the original entrance doorway. The decaying Victorian conservatory's post-apocalyptic vibe easily etches Cahercon House onto our list of abandoned places in Ireland that will creep you out. The BBC's TV. (largely demolished after 2001). But as late as the 1750s, only three public asylums existed in England and one each in Scotland and Ireland, housing at most 400 people who were then termed lunatics, from a population of 7 million; roughly the same number were in so-called private madhouses. Inside it was sumptuously furnished and fitted up. RAVENSCRAIG HOSPITAL, GREENOCKDesigned byJohn Starforthin 1876 as the Greenock Poorhouse and Parochial Asylum, it was later known as the Smithston Institution. The plans were revised in 1969, but finally shelved with the move to care in the community.
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