Heart Home in 1952 Cavan (County Cavan): St. Felim's Hospital, a former workhouse Cashel (South Tipperary): St Patrick's Hospital Castlebar (County Mayo): Mayo County Home Castleblayney (County Monaghan): St Mary's Hospital Clonakilty (West County Cork) Cork City (East County Cork): St Finbarr's Dublin (County Dublin): St Kevin's Institution (modern St. James's Hospital) Dungarvan (County Waterford): St Joseph's Hospital Ennis (County Clare): St. Joseph's County Home Enniscorthy (County Wexford): St Senan's Hospital Killarney (County Kerry): St. Columbanus’ Hospital Longford (County Longford): St. Joseph's Hospital Loughrea (County Galway): St Brendan's Hospital Manorhamilton (County Leitrim): Our Lady's Hospital Mountmellick (County Laois / Queen's County): St. Vincent's Mallow (North County Cork) Mullingar (County Westmeath): Midland Regional Hospital Newcastle West (County Limerick): St Ita's Hospital Rathdrum (County Wicklow): St Colman's Hospital Roscommon (County Roscommon): Sacred Heart Hospital Sligo (County Sligo): St John's Hospital Stranorlar (County Donegal): St Joseph's Thomastown (County Kilkenny): St Columbkille's County Home Thurles (North Tipperary): Community Hospital of the Assumption Trim (County Meath): St Joseph's Hospital Tullamore (County Offaly / King's County): Midlands Regional Hospital Cultural depictions As a symbol of the failure of the newly independent state to provide for the needs of its people, the county home has occasionally featured in fiction. Sebastian Barry's 1995 play The Steward of Christendom takes place in a county home, depicting the fractured memories of a mentally-ill former policeman. The expression "Goodnight Ballivor, I'll Sleep in Trim", famous in County Meath, is possibly a reference to the Trim county home. In Colm Tóibín's 2009 novel Brooklyn, the main character notes that New York's "forgotten Irish" remind her of "men from the County Home;" she is a native of Enniscorthy, where the Wexford county home was sited. Niamh Boyce wrote Kitty, a sequence of poems about her grandaunt, a seamstress in the Athy county home. John MacKenna mentions the "county home" in a poem in his 2012 collection Where Sadness Begins. References Total institutions Types of health care facilities 1922 establishments in Ireland