| St. Kevin's Hospital | |
| Location: | Cork |
| Region: | County Cork |
| Country: | Ireland |
| Healthcare: | HSE |
| Type: | Specialist |
| Speciality: | Psychiatric hospital |
| Founded: | 1899 |
| Closed: | 2002 |
| Map Type: | Ireland |
| Coordinates: | 51.8964°N -8.5088°W |
St. Kevin's Hospital (ga|Ospidéal Naomh Caoimhín) was a psychiatric hospital in Cork, County Cork, Ireland.
The hospital, which was originally commissioned as an annex to Our Lady's Hospital, was designed by William Henry Hill[1] and opened in 1899.[2] The new annex was a substantial facility in its own right and it initially accommodated 490 patients.[2] It was renamed St. Kevin's Hospital in the mid-20th century.[2]
After the introduction of deinstitutionalisation in the late 1980s the hospital went into a period of decline.[3] [4] However electroconvulsive therapy was still used on patients in the late 1990s[5] and in 1999 the Inspector of Mental Hospitals reported that conditions in the hospital were "most unsatisfactory".[5] After services transferred to Mercy University Hospital, St. Kevin's hospital closed in 2002.[6] It subsequently became derelict and was badly damaged in a fire in 2017.[6] In 2021 clearance from An Bord Pleanála allowed the Land Development Agency to move ahead with plans for residential development at the site.[7]