A lonely chair. GALWAY, IRELAND: THESE CREEPY images show an infamous abandoned psychiatric hospital in Ireland left to rot after housing mentally ill
A lonely chair. GALWAY, IRELAND: THESE CREEPY images show an infamous abandoned psychiatric hospital in Ireland left to rot after housing mentally ill patients for unsettling image shows an abandoned wheelchair left alone in the middle of a hallway, which would have been used for the thousands of mentally ill patients in the hospital at the one time. Other images show signs such as ?Caution Slippery Floor? still left out, as if the patients and medical staff had just disappeared and left everything behind. Freelance photographer Jordan Hanna (24) from London, United kingdom explored the creepy St Bridgid's Psychiatric Hospital in Ballinasloe, County Galway and captured eerie photographs using a canon 2000D DSLR combined with the 10-18mm ultra wide angle lens. Jordan explored the extensive hospital grounds for over six hours, which has been abandoned since 2013 due to the introduction of deinstitutionalisation in the late 1980s, and fears of overcrowding in the hospital. The deinstitutionalisation of mental health began its roots in the 1960s in Ireland and pushed for a shift in patients with mental illnesses being in long-term stays, such as in psychiatric hospitals, to community mental health services. St Bridgid's Psychiatric Hospital first opened its doors in 1833 as The Connacht District Lunatic Asylum and was considered one of the earliest of the Irish district asylums, hailing a new progressive role in mental health for Ireland, stating that it would care for the ?curable lunatics?. As time went on however, the hospital would be continually overcrowded and overrun with patients, with an example being 1,165 patients in accommodation that was designed for only around 840 in November 1900. With the deinstitutionalisation of mental health and the constant overcrowding, St. Bridgid?s Psychiatric Hospital was forced to close its doors in 2013, leaving the infamous hospital to be engulfed by nature. ?The hospital, which was designed by William Murray, o
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