View of the Linden Convalescent House from front, Stillorgan, Dublin City, Co. Dublin
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| In collection: | Eason Photographic Collection |
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[between ca. 1900-1939].
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| Notes: | Additional information about this photograph is available on the National Library of Ireland's Flickr Commons photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/53493139927 Physical description: 1 negative : glass ; 31 x 25.5 cm or smaller Geographic Coverage: Dublin City, County Dublin, Province of Leinster, Ireland. more |
The first time I heard of this establishment was when Dev went there after retirement, and it is not in the least bit like what I had envisaged! The Linden Nursing and Convalescent Home in Stillorgan looks much bigger than my humble expectations. I have decided not to go there, at least not yet!
Photographer: Unknown
Collection: Eason Photographic Collection
Date: between 1900-1939
NLI Ref: EAS_2021
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Tags:
Eason, Eason & Son, Eason Collection, Glass Negative, 20th Century, National Library of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, Leinster, Linden Nursing and Convalescent House, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin
Comments
Niall McAuley
Archiseek has some details, concluding with:
Sold in 1993, and now apartments
Looking at Google maps, I think they mean Sold in 1993, demolished, and apartments built on the site.
Edit: not all gone, see below.
Posted: 29.01.2024
Niall McAuley
No surprise buildingsofireland/NIAH has no entry (as it is long gone), but odd there is nothing in the DIA.
Posted: 29.01.2024
Niall McAuley
One of the pics at Archiseek is in the catalogue as EAS_2022
Megazoom suggests to me that the tennis players are in 1930s outfits.
Posted: 29.01.2024
DannyM8
I think it was run by the Sisters of Charity?
Posted: 29.01.2024
Niall McAuley
Archiseek mentions the Mullins Wing (at right) added in early 1870s (so that L_ROY predates then). A general google shows apartments on, e.g. Myhome.ie with addresses like 8 The Mullins Wing, and pics suggest the building was not demolished.
Yes, in this streetview peering in from Grove Avenue, you can see that the right hand wing still survives, and that this pic is taken from the Grove Ave, side of Linden.
The older part at left of todays pic was demolished.
Posted: 29.01.2024
Niall McAuley
Ah, looking at the buildingsofireland map, there are no entries for any buildings at all over most of the south Dublin suburbs from the canal out to Dun Laoghaire, it is not just this building.
Posted: 29.01.2024
Niall McAuley
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/79549245@N06] Yes, here is a pin showing that it was Under the Care of the Sisters of Charity in 1950.
Posted: 29.01.2024
Niall McAuley
Also:
Posted: 29.01.2024
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
The occupier of the house jumped from the parapet of the tower, landing on the portico in 1863 in a moment of insanity.
From - www.youwho.ie/linden.html
Edit - via Trove ...
"... A melancholy case of suicide occured at King-stown on August 2. A retired millitary gentleman-Captain Sartoris, formerly of the 11th Hussars-who has been for some years deranged, broke from his attendants, and flung himself, in a state of nudity, from a turret of his residence, a height of about 40 feet. He was taken up insensible, having sustained some frightful injuries'about the head. He lingered until the morning of August 4 when he expired at an early hour. His insanity is said to have been the result of an accident in the hunting-field. He has left a fortune of £4,000 per anumn. An inquest on the remains of the deceased was held on August 4,when the following verdict was returned:-" We find that Captain Julius A. Sartors, being a lunatic came by his death on Sunday, the 2nd August, 1863, by jumping over the parapet of the tower of his residence at Linden, Stillorgan."
See - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/8821591?searchTerm=lin... (1863)
Edit 2 - Much more about the unfortunate Julius Alexandre Sartoris - www.youwho.ie/sartoris.html
Posted: 29.01.2024
Niall McAuley
Further googling says that L_ROY is mislabelled, it is not Linden at all, it is St. Joseph's home for the Deaf and Blind on Brewery Road Streetview, which is marked as a Convalescent Home on the 1900ish 25" and 1930s Cassini, but it is a whole different convalescent home.
Posted: 29.01.2024
Domhnallcos
Technically Eamonn and Sinéad went to Talbot Lodge, a separate residence in the grounds of Linden Convalescent Home. From there he was removed to Dublin Castle for the lying in state. The parish priest of Blackrock at the time, Fr. Seán Ó Cuív, was his nephew, and along with his grandson, also Fr. Seán Ó Cuív,, said the prayers at Talbot Lodge.
As a footnote, I was part of the Blackrock honour guard that evening.
Posted: 29.01.2024
Frank_C
Inspired by @Niall McAuley and via Google Earth - this iswhat's left of the original building. The wing with the tower is gone, and there are some modifications on the roof, but otherwise it's the same one.
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/frankc_ie/53495266356]
Posted: 29.01.2024
O Mac
More information on the house here.. www.youwho.ie/linden.html
including links to the Reeves and Sartoris families..
Posted: 29.01.2024
Niall McAuley
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/137381740@N08] Talbot Lodge, the building, is gone, but the housing estate which replaced it is still called Talbot Lodge.
Posted: 29.01.2024
Niall McAuley
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03] Your More Information includes:
1864 Religious Sisters of Charity
1866 Announcement: To be opened as a nursing home under Sisters of Charity
1867 - 1893 Convalescent Home of St Vincent - Sisters of Charity
1893 - 1989 Linden Convalescent Home - Sisters of Charity
1989 Sold to Capel Developers
Under the title St. Vincents Grove Ave. I find the missing DIA record, which has:
Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, BLACKROCK, GROVE AVENUE, ST VINCENT'S CONVALESCENT HOME
Date: 1895
Nature: Proposed works 'to make good the damage caused by fire'.
Posted: 29.01.2024
Niall McAuley
You can browse the patients and their ailments on the 1911 census Hospital Return Form F Part the First and Part the Second.
Featuring Diptherial paralysis, which I did not know was a thing.
Posted: 29.01.2024
suckindeesel
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/30369211@N00/] Quite a working class clientele, not what I was expecting.
“Typical targets are nerves to the throat, where poor nerve conduction may cause difficulty swallowing. Nerves to the arms and legs also may become inflamed, causing muscle weakness. If the diphtheria toxin damages the nerves that help control muscles used in breathing, these muscles may become paralyzed”
— Mayo Clinic (hence the American dialect)
Posted: 29.01.2024
suckindeesel
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/137381740@N08/] Margaret Mary Pearse in her later years also stayed in Linden, she died in 1968, aged 90.
Posted: 29.01.2024
