The Tyrone and Fermanagh Hospital is a mental health facility in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is managed by the Western Health and Social Care Trust.
| Tyrone and Fermanagh Hospital | |
|---|---|
| Western Health and Social Care Trust | |
 Tyrone and Fermanagh Hospital | |
  Location in Northern Ireland | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland |
| Coordinates | 54°35′36″N 7°16′05″W / 54.5934°N 7.2680°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland |
| Type | Specialist |
| Services | |
| Speciality | Mental health |
| History | |
| Opened | 1853 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
History
editThe hospital was commissioned as an initiative of the gentry of the counties of Tyrone and Fermanagh in the early 19th century.[1] It was designed by William Farrell in the Elizabethan Gothic style and opened as the Omagh District Lunatic Asylum in 1853.[2] Although it was originally intended to accommodate 300 patients,[3] this proved inadequate and additional buildings were erected and the east and west wings were both extended in the 1860s.[2] By the 1930s the facility had become the Tyrone and Fermanagh Hospital.[4] Following the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s the hospital went into a period of decline and wards have been scheduled for closure.[5]
References
edit- ^ Haldane, Michael (2000). Omagh: Paintings and Stories from the Seat of the Chiefs. Cottage Publications. p. 60. ISBN 978-1900935203.
- ^ a b "Tyrone and Fermanagh Hospital". Department for Communities. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ^ Burt, John R F; Burtinshaw, Kathryn (2017). Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots: A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland. Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1473879034.
- ^ "Tyrone and Fermanagh Hospital". National Archives. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ^ "Anger as mental health services at Ash Villa proposed to close". Ulster Herald. 17 November 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2019.