| St. Mary's Hospital | |
| Org/Group: | Health Service Executive |
| Map Type: | Ireland |
| Region: | Castlebar, County Mayo |
| Country: | Ireland |
| Healthcare: | HSE |
| Type: | Specialist |
| Speciality: | Psychiatric hospital |
| Founded: | 1833 |
| Closed: | 2006 |
St. Mary's Hospital (Irish: Ospidéal Naomh Mhuire) was a psychiatric hospital in Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland.
The hospital, which was designed by George Wilkinson opened as the Castlebar Asylum in 1866.[1] It was extended in the late 1890s.[1] It became the Castlebar Mental Hospital in the 1920s and it went on to become St. Mary's Hospital in the 1950s.[1]
Pádraig Flynn, Minister of State at the Department of Transport, officially opened a new Industrial Therapy Unit in May 1981.[2] After the introduction of deinstitutionalisation in the late 1980s the hospital went into a period of decline[3] [4] and closed in 2006.[2] The building was converted for use as the Mayo Campus of the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology in 1994.[2]