Plumblines through time: The Dublin House of Industry and Richmond Lunatic Asylum

Architect and researcher Colm Murray will guide a tour of the fragmentary remains of Dublin's House of Industry, the hospitals that came after it, and the Richmond Lunatic Asylum, later St. Brendan's Hospital, Grangegorman. These institutional buildings in the North-West corner of old Dublin City bear witness to social attitudes to Others that trouble us now.

The tour will begin at TU Dublin Grangegorman Campus, East Quad Entrance, just off Grangegorman Lower, at 13:00

This guided walking tour is part of Heritage Week 2025

Grangegorman Histories

Grangegorman Histories is a public history programme of Dublin City Council, Grangegorman Development Agency, the Health Service Executive, local communities, the National Archives, the Royal Irish Academy and TU Dublin. The programme provides opportunities to contribute to the important work of uncovering, cataloguing and commemorating the eventful history of the Grangegorman area. In the past 250 years, Grangegorman, on the northside of Dublin’s city centre, has been the site of a workhouse, a large psychiatric hospital, a prison; now, it is integrating back into the city as a health and education campus for the HSE, TU Dublin and the local community.

Access requirements

Have you got any access requirements that we can assist you with, so that you can fully engage with our event? Please let us know by contacting our access officer, in advance of the event, by email at accessofficer@ria.ie 

For all other queries please contact grangegormanhistories@ggda.ie