Rathdown Union Workhouse (St Columcille's Hospital)

Workhouse front block

Front block of the Rathdown Poor Law Union workhouse (union formed 1839) by George Wilkinson; c. 800 inmates at the height of the Famine. Now St Columcille's Hospital, Loughlinstown.

Address: Bray Rd, Loughlinstown, Dublin, D18 V9K1
Phone: +353 1 211 5000
Website: www2.hse.ie/services/hospitals/st-columc
Period: 1840-1845
Distance: 1.1 km from St Anne's Church

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Opening hours

Monday	8 AM to 6 PM
Tuesday	8 AM to 6 PM
Wednesday	8 AM to 6 PM
Thursday	8 AM to 6 PM
Friday	8 AM to 6 PM
Saturday	8 AM to 6 PM
Sunday	8 AM to 6 PM

Nearby history & heritage

Loughlinstown Workhouse Cemetery Cemetery · 1.1 km Saint Columcille's Hospital, Bray Rd, Loughlinstown, Dublin
Loughlinstown House (Eurofound) Country house on a castle site · 1.5 km Wyattville Road, Loughlinstown

+353 1 204 3100
Railway viaduct, Cherrywood (Bride's Glen) Viaduct · 1.2 km
Old Shanganagh Castle (Beechlands, Shanganagh Road) Tower house (fragment, private) · 0.8 km
Cherrywood House (Dr John Lyon's glebe house) Glebe house · 1.2 km
Ballybrack portal tomb ('Shanganagh dolmen') Megalithic tomb - portal tomb · 1.2 km 105-98 Cromlech Fields, Ballybrack, Dublin, A96 T6W4

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