Meath Hospital

The Meath Hospital was founded in 1753. Situated in the 'liberty' of the earl of Meath now Heytesbury Street, the hospital was opened to serve the sick and poor in the crowded area of the liberties in Dublin. In the nineteenth century the Meath Hospital achieved world-wide fame as a result of the revolutionary teaching methods and groundbreaking research carried out by Robert Graves and William Stokes, physicians of the hospital. In more recent times the hospital developed specialised services in the fields of urology, psychiatry, orthopaedics, haematology, endocrinology and nephrology and was eventually incorporated into the Tallaght hospital although the original building continues to serve as a respite home to this day.