National Children's Hospital

This article is about the old hospital on Harcourt Street and later in Tallaght. For the new hospital intended to replace it and Dublin's other children's hospitals, see New children's hospital. For the hospital in Quezon City, Philippines, see National Children's Hospital (Philippines).
National Children's Hospital
Health Service Executive
87-91 Harcourt Street (on the right with the portico), home of the National Children's Hospital from 1887 to 1998
National Children's Hospital is located in Central Dublin
National Children's Hospital
Shown in Dublin
Geography
Location Dublin City, County Dublin, Ireland
Coordinates 53.33650°N 6.26289°W / 53.33650; -6.26289
Organisation
Care system HSE
Type Specialist
Services
Speciality Children's Hospital
History
Opened 1821
Closed 1998
Links
Website www.tuh.ie/Children-s-Services/
Lists Hospitals in the Republic of Ireland

The National Children's Hospital (Irish: Ospidéal Náisiúnta na Leanaí) was a children's teaching hospital in Dublin, Ireland. It was absorbed into the Tallaght Hospital in June 1998.

History

The hospital was founded by Sir Philip Crampton, Sir Henry Marsh and Dr Charles Johnston, on Pitt Street (now Balfe Street) in The Liberties as the Institute for Sick Children in 1821. Following amalgamation with the National Orthopaedic and Children's Hospital in 1884, the combined institution moved to Harcourt Street in 1887. It was absorbed into the Tallaght Hospital as its Children's Services Department in June 1998.

In November 2012 the Minister for Health James Reilly announced plans to transfer Children's Services from the Tallaght University Hospital to a new children's hospital on the campus of St. James's Hospital.