Govt agency preparing ambitious plans for housing on site of former Cork psychiatric hospital

Ambitious housing plans are being prepared for a former asylum building on the northside of Cork city which has been boarded up since it was gutted in a suspected arson attack just over two years ago.

City officials have confirmed that proposals for the former St Kevin’s hospital building and site, on the grounds of the former Our Lady’s Mental Hospital in Shanakiel - understood to be the single largest derelict site in the city - have been discussed with the Government’s Land Development Agency (LDA) and should be ready for presentation by Autumn.