The Coombe.
The Coombe Hospital, usually just called the Coombe, is a modern hospital standing in a completely different location from its original namesake and predecessor which was located at 81-84, The Coombe.
The original Coombe Hospital was established by Mrs. Margaret Boyle and other benefactors and it officially opened in 1829, founded in part because two women and their newborn children had perished in a snowstorm while trying to get to the Rotunda Hospital at Parnell Square in 1825.
It was known as The Coombe Lying-In Hospital.
Remarkably the front entrance and Portico are preserved in their original location at the Coombe.
It never ceases to amaze me how much of Ireland's past is hidden in Ireland's present and within plain sight if only we take the time to stop to look.
Historically, the Coombe Lying-in Hospital which officially opened in 1829 had itself superseded yet another hospital on this site which had moved elsewhere, The Meath Hospital and County Dublin Infirmary, whose foundation Stone was laid in 1770 by one Lord Brabazon.
Explanatory and Memorial Plaque on the Monument.
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