folks just to point out, this place is now the DIT Grangegorman college campus.. the changes they have made are amazing! so no, it's not being let rot it's being put to good use. There was only a few residents still remaining at the asylum before it shut down and I know that some have been relocated to a new unit. One past resident I actually had the pleasure of meeting, she was relocated into a nearby hospitals elderly nursing unit with the help of her family and is very happy there. the other parts of the richmond asylum are being kept if possible and restored and numerous things are being built around them in an attempt to 'revamp' the area in general, hence the recent luas works are also going to be spreading up to the campus.
Chloe Kavanagh Here's a February 2015 shot - the Lower House is visible in extreme bottom left of the photo: www.dit.ie/media/grangegorman/images/maps/5%20feb%202015.jpg
+Chloe Kavanagh Surely you don't mean that this building is one of the renovated buildings in use by the college and I am sure that any reference that others made to allowing buildings to rot was aptly made in reference to those that have been, not those others that are renovated and kept up. Perhaps it has been demolished by now and something else has been built in its place.
Not that I want to stop anybody talking in their own videos nor adding music, but I think viewers are infinitely better off for you having done neither. Kudos to you.
Risky Stuff. Some of those footfalls had me real worried for your safety. Best (almost) silent drama I have seen for a while...... I like the way you frame the tension & darkness of these places in your shots. You are a good camera man.....somebody has to chronicle this stuff I guess - keep up the good work.
The stairwell to the basement felt creepy because there was cold air coming up from it, aside from that there wasn't anything particularly out of the ordinary.
Built in the early 19th century, Michael, the title is simply using the terminology of the time, you can put down your banner, and look for something else to get offended by.
I played in the grounds for many years as a kid. As kid's a really great place to explore back then. For patients and us kid's It was bleek and foreboding, Edwardian style. The patients we got to know quite well all by first name . We played in the handball ally with some of the patinas. Always looking for a chace from security or a patient, Our school faced on to the Richmond Hospital and the Goman. It's not through Rose tinted glasses I remember. It was bleek back then 1970. Country on its knees, poverty everywhere. Building's everywhere falling down or border up in the city. A grayness hung over the inner-city especially. Not that long ago eighter. Dub
Brilliant video, has been of immense use to me in research purposes. I was there yesterday to have a look around outside and thanks to your bravery, I don't have to wonder any more what it's like in there. Fair play for having the guts to cross those floors.
The occasional hand on the wall (pointing to various wards) was totally creepy. Kept thinking of the Ghost of Christmas Past in Dickens' Christmas Carol. Thorough and spectacular footage. I realize this video is a while ago now, so I'm going to assume you're more cautious these days about your own safety. You took hair-raising chances I this one! Stay safe, okay?
I was in there about a month ago and same, I was on my own and nobody really knew where I was. The place is an absolute death trap now. There are no upper floors left and the roof is 1/2 gone. Plenty of drug kit around, floors ready to go at any time. Sad to see. Don't think it will be around a lot longer.
Thanks for putting this on here, it must have taken a lot of guts to tread around on those upper floors, I would have been scared of falling through, as the whole place looks really well rotten. If there are no other inhabited buildings nearby, this edifice could be blown up. Slainte.
At 7:58 and 8:02 (thereabouts) there was a sound in your camera's audio that you usually only hear when the camera is exposed to HIGH emfs,like high tension electric distribution towers. Strange for an abandoned building.
Ta for the info bjorn - I guess they were still knocking stuff down like crazy in the 90s too. It seemed more appropriate when I thought they were doing it in the 80s though...
Slight correction; the three wings attached to the remaining structure which formed the Lower House were demolished in the early 1990's. The remaining structure shown in this video was pretty much intact until the making of the Michael Collins film. Unfortunately parts of the roof and the chimney pots had to be removed, also to add to the authenticity of the film holes were blown in the front of the building.
thebettyfordclinic wow! Good job on the video, and you definitely have huge balls for going there alone! You do know that its haunted right?! In the first few minutes I saw several, it seemed that they were watching you to see what you were doing. Incredibly creepy my friend! I can only imagine what it would be like to visit at night, there's no way I would do that, that is one big old bag of NOPE!!! You have a new subscriber! Lol
Is it possible to tag along on your next project? Strange question I know, is there anyway we can communicate further about future possibilities of a collaberation ? Gill.
why are there bike stands and seemingly fairly new seating at the front there? and the road looks new.....anyway, you can't go into buildings once the roof is gone, the building is gone....the rain destroys everything and anything could crumble anytime....just to let you know
They built a school directly in front of the building (but separated by a very good fence) hence the bike stands and seating. And yes, the floors were predominantly rotten and mostly unsafe. I experienced one partial floor collapse whilst I was inside.
The Lower House is now fully refurbished and brought back into use to provide student facilities as part of the Technological University Dublin Campus, if you can believe it: th-cam.com/video/oCVmutoJrw8/w-d-xo.html
[Hogwarts is] bewitched,’ said Hermione. ‘If a Muggle looks at it, all they see is a mouldering old ruin with a sign over the entrance saying DANGER, DO NOT ENTER, UNSAFE.’ Clearly, that would not deter this bunch... So sad electronics go haywire around too much magic.
TheWillog This is the Lower House at Grangegorman; it was undergoing stabilisation works in March 2015. The campus development is predominantly on the site across the road afaik.
whoever owns this building is waiting for it to collapse and be unhabitable. that way, he or she can sell it of, or build a load of apartments, and make a fortune. meanwhile, what do people who are not well upstairs do:? where can THEY go to?
Didn't go down! Due to not bringing enough water and having to reshoot 30 mins coz of a card failure I was a bit wrecked. There was also a horrific chilling breeze coming up from the basement that made me think satan might be down there. I'll pop back some day...
TheWillog The is the Lower House at Grangegorman; it was undergoing stabilisation works in March 2015. The campus development is predominantly on the site across the road afaik.
Dude you should visit st anns/st Kevin's asylum up in cork city i go bombing (spray painting)up there.There's not that much security up there and there IS a way in to more than one of the buildings up there.Look at RMS-> On Facebook I have pics of it up there c:
I don't like that it'was called a lunatic asslm...but for the grace of god there go i....bless all who had the priv...to stay here for they are now free spirits:)
boo. there id no narration. none of this tells me anything other than this was an asylum. I'm glad I didn't wait for the whole thing to run through. I skip through it.
Hello! I tend to leave the basic info in the extended TH-cam description, but mostly just do very long and overly detailed videos with the natural ambient audio from the location. To get a proper history of this building I would indeed recommend googling - specifically by the name Richmond Lunatic Asylum but also St. Brendan's Hospital. The information available is limited, but would still be a complete video by itself. My video is really just to allow a detailed view of the entire building - if I try and cover the history it's really too much work (sorry!). Here's a good starting link: ggda.ie/grangegorman/a-brief-history
@@thebettyfordclinic From around 93-97 I used to work in a homeless shelter that sat opposite, which was also part of St. Brendans hospital. Would have been in that building nearly on a daily basis looking for and checking on homeless people. The three demolished sides had like cells in them with heavy steel doors that some homeless people used to use if they couldn't get into a hostel or some just prefered it rather than a hostel. The three sides were demolished after a fella was murdered in the remaining wing featured in the video and just before filming started on Michael Collins. As for downstairs been down there once when we had a power cut as there was a room that supplied the building we were using with electricity, we soon got that sorted never again lol. Obviously a lot of fire damage which has taken out the floors, in the Collins film the scenes that are representing Dublin Castle and it's archives of files were filmed in that building and outside and inside GPO Shots. Holds a lot of memories however due to nature of Job and clientelle some not too pleasant.
I lived here for a year, it was a place of love, the staff were amazing, it was also a place of serenity. Hope is an important thing in life.
If you feel like it, have you any stories to tell, or any accounts of the conditions there, etc?
I come back every year to watch this and it's still one of my favourite youtube videos.
This is a great example of life after people.. Look how Mother Nature takes back her own..
folks just to point out, this place is now the DIT Grangegorman college campus.. the changes they have made are amazing! so no, it's not being let rot it's being put to good use. There was only a few residents still remaining at the asylum before it shut down and I know that some have been relocated to a new unit. One past resident I actually had the pleasure of meeting, she was relocated into a nearby hospitals elderly nursing unit with the help of her family and is very happy there. the other parts of the richmond asylum are being kept if possible and restored and numerous things are being built around them in an attempt to 'revamp' the area in general, hence the recent luas works are also going to be spreading up to the campus.
Chloe Kavanagh Here's a February 2015 shot - the Lower House is visible in extreme bottom left of the photo: www.dit.ie/media/grangegorman/images/maps/5%20feb%202015.jpg
+Chloe Kavanagh Surely you don't mean that this building is one of the renovated buildings in use by the college and I am sure that any reference that others made to allowing buildings to rot was aptly made in reference to those that have been, not those others that are renovated and kept up. Perhaps it has been demolished by now and something else has been built in its place.
actually the knocked nothing down only repaired the building
The Lower House recently got done up. Now owned by TUD as a student centre/canteen. Check out the Grangegorman insta and you'll see a pic of it.
Not that I want to stop anybody talking in their own videos nor adding music, but I think viewers are infinitely better off for you having done neither. Kudos to you.
Holy COW! Seemed pretty dangerous. BUT the shots where we can see your feet stepping over gaping holes in the floor are pretty cool!
Wow, that's one very creepy looking place. Great video.
your brave for walking on them floors! u could've easily fallen through the floorboards probably. great quality filmmaking
Risky Stuff.
Some of those footfalls had me real worried for your safety.
Best (almost) silent drama I have seen for a while...... I like the way you frame the tension & darkness of these places in your shots.
You are a good camera man.....somebody has to chronicle this stuff I guess - keep up the good work.
Great video.... You're braver than me! Some of the floors looked ready to go.
The stairwell to the basement felt creepy because there was cold air coming up from it, aside from that there wasn't anything particularly out of the ordinary.
In these putridly bland pc times , how reassuring to read the words "lunatic asylum" used with heedless abandon . Good on you , thebettyfordclinic !
Built in the early 19th century, Michael, the title is simply using the terminology of the time, you can put down your banner, and look for something else to get offended by.
I played in the grounds for many years as a kid. As kid's a really great place to explore back then. For patients and us kid's It was bleek and foreboding, Edwardian style. The patients we got to know quite well all by first name . We played in the handball ally with some of the patinas. Always looking for a chace from security or a patient, Our school faced on to the Richmond Hospital and the Goman. It's not through Rose tinted glasses I remember. It was bleek back then 1970. Country on its knees, poverty everywhere. Building's everywhere falling down or border up in the city. A grayness hung over the inner-city especially. Not that long ago eighter. Dub
I worked there about 20 years ago. Very interesting place to work.
Feel free to elaborate!
Do go on....
Good job! - Although you can imagine the conversation - "Help, I've fallen into the basement!","Where are you?"- "I'm in the Lunatic Asylum".lol
You're so lucky you didn't fall through the floors, great video!!
A great video, truly.
Still one of my favourite videos. Great work.
You are my new hero! Thank you for this wonderful video. I wish I were half as brave as you to go into a place like this.
Brilliant video, has been of immense use to me in research purposes. I was there yesterday to have a look around outside and thanks to your bravery, I don't have to wonder any more what it's like in there. Fair play for having the guts to cross those floors.
luncheonroll research? it's just a visual. it doesn't tell me anything of the people or the staff or the Horrors
I am dying a little every time you walk on those rotting floors. Thanks for sharing.
The occasional hand on the wall (pointing to various wards) was totally creepy. Kept thinking of the Ghost of Christmas Past in Dickens' Christmas Carol. Thorough and spectacular footage. I realize this video is a while ago now, so I'm going to assume you're more cautious these days about your own safety. You took hair-raising chances I this one! Stay safe, okay?
This was so well done....but that place is still nightmare fuel.
Not anymore, got recently done up and it's now a part of TU Dublin where it's more magnificent than ever before.
My heart stopped several times! Honestly scarier than some horror video.
Nice video, sad to see such a lovely building in such a state:( great camera work:)
I was in there about a month ago and same, I was on my own and nobody really knew where I was. The place is an absolute death trap now. There are no upper floors left and the roof is 1/2 gone. Plenty of drug kit around, floors ready to go at any time. Sad to see. Don't think it will be around a lot longer.
Thanks for putting this on here, it must have taken a lot of guts to tread around on those upper floors, I would have been scared of falling through, as the whole place looks really well rotten. If there are no other inhabited buildings nearby, this edifice could be blown up. Slainte.
you're a braver man than I am Gunda Din
That place was terrifying.... I jumped every time a pigeon made a noise
I worked there in the 1980's
this man was a lot braver than I would be to step on some of those floors
Thats Demolished now thanks to my driving skills!
It's done up now and it's gonna be part of TU Dublin
😂😂🤣😂
At 7:58 and 8:02 (thereabouts) there was a sound in your camera's audio that you usually only hear when the camera is exposed to HIGH emfs,like high tension electric distribution towers. Strange for an abandoned building.
I'm afraid this is just my mobile phone causing interference with the zoom audio recorder. I should have put it on airplane mode...
shocking that this place was left to get like this and not preserved.
Man that's beyond creepy! You are brave
Ta for the info bjorn - I guess they were still knocking stuff down like crazy in the 90s too. It seemed more appropriate when I thought they were doing it in the 80s though...
Great video
Brave boy.. Wouldn't have fancied my chances on some of those rotten beams!
If only walls could talk, what a story they would tell..
The opening shot is of the original front of the Workhouse where my grand uncle was born.
There were also tunnels connecting the hospital in Brunswick Street to the women's prison....
Slight correction; the three wings attached to the remaining structure which formed the Lower House were demolished in the early 1990's. The remaining structure shown in this video was pretty much intact until the making of the Michael Collins film. Unfortunately parts of the roof and the chimney pots had to be removed, also to add to the authenticity of the film holes were blown in the front of the building.
the townland it is situated in is called Grange Gorman.
not the building.
I was ok with the floor going, but those pigeons got me.
thebettyfordclinic wow! Good job on the video, and you definitely have huge balls for going there alone! You do know that its haunted right?! In the first few minutes I saw several, it seemed that they were watching you to see what you were doing. Incredibly creepy my friend! I can only imagine what it would be like to visit at night, there's no way I would do that, that is one big old bag of NOPE!!! You have a new subscriber! Lol
That place looks unsafe ! Whoah !
Oooh that floor looks a bit dodgy
That was so freaking creepy if i was there i would not even go inside
7:53 admit it folks, you thought that was somebody slumped in the corner, on the right hand side
I live only like a few miles away from that exact place
There would be a few angry spirits there I reckon!
Its only up the road from me and it looks pure creepy!
Yup - safety first!
How old is it? Such decay. But if you let it fall into it's self it makes it cheaper to tear down.
Awesome
Creepy as. I'd not go in their alone or with 500 people.
Wow!
20:50 The irish word Aonad for Unit is not used here?
Great place for a real life outlast documentary.
fantastico lugar
Is it possible to tag along on your next project? Strange question I know, is there anyway we can communicate further about future possibilities of a collaberation ?
Gill.
You were brave on that rotten floor!
why are there bike stands and seemingly fairly new seating at the front there? and the road looks new.....anyway, you can't go into buildings once the roof is gone, the building is gone....the rain destroys everything and anything could crumble anytime....just to let you know
They built a school directly in front of the building (but separated by a very good fence) hence the bike stands and seating. And yes, the floors were predominantly rotten and mostly unsafe. I experienced one partial floor collapse whilst I was inside.
Now(2021), a university campus.
What is that thing you zoomed it @4;41 on the left wall?Great video !
This was the bad combination: alone and didn't tell anyone where I was.
Why did it shut down?
The Lower House is now fully refurbished and brought back into use to provide student facilities as part of the Technological University Dublin Campus, if you can believe it: th-cam.com/video/oCVmutoJrw8/w-d-xo.html
How did it rot away and why did they leave I would have gone with u :3
8:35 Good Lord, they found somebody who loves LEEDS in 1978. Oh, wait a minute. It IS a lunatic asylum, OK, that makes sense.
hes only out of grangegorman !!!
Did the place feel haunted? Was there any paranormal experience?
[Hogwarts is] bewitched,’ said Hermione. ‘If a Muggle looks at it, all they see is a mouldering old ruin with a sign over the entrance saying DANGER, DO NOT ENTER, UNSAFE.’
Clearly, that would not deter this bunch... So sad electronics go haywire around too much magic.
Useless is the castle wall
Useless is the metal wall
He's gonna jump
If you don't know
The Electric Co.
15:12 A pint o' plain's your only man.
Did you have your mobile phone with you so you could call for help in case of an accident?
Is this not the old Nurses Home on Grangegorman Road?
I think the (red brick) nurses accommodation building was behind this, but it has since been demolished.
19:43 Spot the demon skeleton's face on the wall on right hand side.
Torture at asylums to this day.
was cool the way it was hehe
can you tell me the exact location of this place please
This vid is old so I don't think it looks like this anymore. Here you go though 53.352424,-6.2782674
thebettyfordclinic thank you
Only a lunatic would dare go in there !!!! hihi !!
I know that place, you're lucky you didn't get stabbed by junkies.
It was Bethlem Hospital not Bethlehem.
can somebody tell me where this place is thank you
john ward its in dublin 7 off the north circular road its a college now
TheWillog This is the Lower House at Grangegorman; it was undergoing stabilisation works in March 2015. The campus development is predominantly on the site across the road afaik.
whoever owns this building is waiting for it to collapse and be unhabitable.
that way, he or she can sell it of, or build a load of apartments, and make a fortune.
meanwhile, what do people who are not well upstairs do:?
where can THEY go to?
Didn't go down! Due to not bringing enough water and having to reshoot 30 mins coz of a card failure I was a bit wrecked. There was also a horrific chilling breeze coming up from the basement that made me think satan might be down there. I'll pop back some day...
omg you are brave...or stoned?.. just saying this place gave me the bee jeeves 3 minutes in..
thats only 1 building it was still a hospital up until recently it is now a college campus
TheWillog The is the Lower House at Grangegorman; it was undergoing stabilisation works in March 2015. The campus development is predominantly on the site across the road afaik.
Dude you should visit st anns/st Kevin's asylum up in cork city i go bombing (spray painting)up there.There's not that much security up there and there IS a way in to more than one of the buildings up there.Look at RMS-> On Facebook I have pics of it up there c:
8:11 some homeless person must have been living here 0_0
There was a lot of homeless people used it in the early 90s usually as surrounding hostels 2 male 2 female were full or they were barred
who?
I don't like that it'was called a lunatic asslm...but for the grace of god there go i....bless all who had the priv...to stay here for they are now free spirits:)
boo. there id no narration. none of this tells me anything other than this was an asylum. I'm glad I didn't wait for the whole thing to run through. I skip through it.
The content was intentionally created in this manner. Thanks for commenting!
Hello! I tend to leave the basic info in the extended TH-cam description, but mostly just do very long and overly detailed videos with the natural ambient audio from the location. To get a proper history of this building I would indeed recommend googling - specifically by the name Richmond Lunatic Asylum but also St. Brendan's Hospital. The information available is limited, but would still be a complete video by itself. My video is really just to allow a detailed view of the entire building - if I try and cover the history it's really too much work (sorry!). Here's a good starting link: ggda.ie/grangegorman/a-brief-history
@@thebettyfordclinic From around 93-97 I used to work in a homeless shelter that sat opposite, which was also part of St. Brendans hospital. Would have been in that building nearly on a daily basis looking for and checking on homeless people. The three demolished sides had like cells in them with heavy steel doors that some homeless people used to use if they couldn't get into a hostel or some just prefered it rather than a hostel. The three sides were demolished after a fella was murdered in the remaining wing featured in the video and just before filming started on Michael Collins. As for downstairs been down there once when we had a power cut as there was a room that supplied the building we were using with electricity, we soon got that sorted never again lol. Obviously a lot of fire damage which has taken out the floors, in the Collins film the scenes that are representing Dublin Castle and it's archives of files were filmed in that building and outside and inside GPO Shots. Holds a lot of memories however due to nature of Job and clientelle some not too pleasant.
Ha this is now a college
wicked vid u got some balls going up to the other floors fk that not for me
Terrible place. Women were forced to have electro-convulsive therapy
Apart from here writing this , where are all the loonies these days ?