Survey Data
Reg No
15311018
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Previous Name
Mullingar District Lunatic Asylum
Original Use
Chimney
In Use As
Chimney
Date
1890 - 1900
Coordinates
245142, 253932
Date Recorded
06/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Red brick chimneystack on octagonal-plan attached to the rear (north) of the central block of St. Loman’s Hospital (15311017), built 1895. Brick plinth to base and metal tie-bars at regular intervals along length of shaft. Located to the north of the north of the St. Loman’s Hospital complex and to the northeast of Mullingar.
Appraisal
A slender and quite graceful red brick chimneystack associated with St. Loman’s Hospital (15311017), probably associated with a laundry or an incinerator. Well-built, this feature is an impressive piece of engineering and construction. Probably built as part of the late nineteenth-century alterations and extensions carried out to designs by Joyce and Parry between 1890 and 1895. It adds to the skyline to the northeast of Mullingar and is a local landmark.