Architect and researcher Colm Murray will guide a tour of the fragmentary remains of Grangegorman's institutional buildings.

The tour will begin at TU Dublin Grangegorman Campus, East Quad Entrance on:

Wednesday 19 August, 1:00pm

Saturday 22 August, 1:00pm

Tour duration: one hour.

Architect and researcher Colm Murray will guide a tour of the fragmentary remains of Grangegorman's institutional buildings: the Richmond Lunatic Asylum, later St. Brendan's Hospital, The Richmond Penitentiary, Dublin's House of Industry (later workhouse), and the hospitals that it gave rise to.

They bear witness to the desire to improve society through architecture - did it succeed?

This guided walking tour is part of National Heritage Week 2026.

About 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.

Description supplied by the event organiser.