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The Royal Hospital Kilmainham ... The Hospital remained the home of a dwindling number of soldiers until it closed in 1927. [8] ... Contact Wikipedia; Code of Conduct;
The area is best known for Royal Hospital Kilmainham, constructed on the site where the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem had their priory in Dublin. It now houses the Irish Museum of Modern Art. The Richmond Tower marks the junction between the formal pedestrianised avenue leading to the Royal Hospital, and the South Circular Road.
The Group is headed by a Chief Executive, who is accountable to the National Director for Acute Services in the Health Service Executive, [4] and is responsibility for delivering inpatient care, emergency care, maternity services, outpatient care and diagnostic services at its designated hospitals. [4]
The Irish Museum of Modern Art is housed in the 17th-century Royal Hospital Kilmainham. The Royal Hospital was founded in 1684 by James Butler, the Duke of Ormonde and Viceroy to Charles II, as a home for retired soldiers and continued in that use for almost 250 years. The Royal Hospital is a striking location for displaying modern art.
Bully's Acre (officially, the Hospital Fields; Irish: Acra an Bhulaí) [2] is a former public cemetery located near the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin, Ireland. It is 3.7 acres (1.5 ha) in extent.
An early illustration of the barracks taken from Charles Brooking's map of Dublin (1728). Save for the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, the barracks is the earliest public building in Dublin, and was built from 1701 by the then Surveyor General under Queen Anne, Thomas de Burgh. [1]
Burgh's plans for the hospital were influenced by the architecture of late-seventeenth-century English houses such as Clarendon House and also the design of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, which was built in the 1680s as a home for old and disabled soldiers.
Royal Hospital Kilmainham, of which Jeffreys was appointed the first Master in 1684 In 1684 when the Royal Hospital Kilmainham for old soldiers was founded, Sir Leoline Jenkins , the Secretary of State , a fellow Welshman and lifelong friend of Jeffreys, persuaded Ormonde, the founder, to accept Jeffreys as the first Master. [ 4 ]