Inside St. Senan's Psychiatric Hospital

St. Senan’s Psychiatric Hospital is an abandoned red-brick building that overlooks Enniscorthy, County Wexford. It was once locally known as The Mental Hospital and opened in the 1800s as the Lunatic Asylum for the Insane Poor of Mind.

UrbexJunkie, an Irish urban explorer, recently visited the abandoned sections of the hospital. His photographs show blandly painted corridors, flaking walls, and physical aids that appear to have been left untouched for years.

Abandoned kitchen — The gutted kitchen where patients once ate their meals. Paint peels from the walls and the floor is covered with broken glass and bird excrement.

Abandoned mental hospital — The kitchen from the opposite side. A sink remains attached to the wall in the distance.

Spooky corridor — Another corridor inside the asylum.

Abandoned wheelchair — An abandoned wheelchair.

Trolley dolly — A room that was sealed off from the rest of the hospital. A trolley, old desks, and chairs remain scattered throughout.

Abandoned office — An office wall with red text scribbled on it, presumably written by staff who worked there before its closure. Some of the text reads “We were here on the last day 17/4/2013” and “The end of the bread and jam gang.” Another message reads “The last hurrah 18th April 2013” and “End of one era – start of another.”

Moss growing on window — Moss growing over a broken window.

Homeless — A makeshift bed at the bottom of a flight of steps. A reader suggested the blankets were used to block water during heavy rainfall.

St. Senans Asylum — Two unidentified machines. UrbexJunkie suggested they could have been industrial clothes dryers. Readers later identified them as potato washers.

Eerie room — A colourfully painted room connecting to the grounds of St. Senan’s.

Readers can find more of UrbexJunkie’s work on his Facebook page and his website.

Inside St. Senan’s Psychiatric Hospital