St. Senan's Psychiatric hospital and graveyard
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
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Oh poor Rose. It's heartbreaking to think how much she suffered. Others buried without even the dignity of a stone bearing their name. The cruelty is unforgivable. Thank You for finding this Sue. Rose, and all those buried there, are no longer forgotten. Sue has brought your resting place to people who care.
Thanks Elizabeth, it was something I wanted to do since reading the book restless spirit, finally I found these souls, thanks to Patricia in bringing the sad story to light
So sad. There are people in this world that has done such evil things to others and they are still doing evil today. One day that will be over but until then we must fight for those unable to fight for themselves. Thank you Sue
Well said Quebot, ❤❤
It shows you how cruel society was back then, I never heard of a situation of a person being committed because they wouldn’t live with the person they were supposed to marry. Incredible. And yes the names were pretty cruel to. Here they were called “lunatic asylum‘s”. For the “feeble minded”. Pretty reprehensible by today’s standards.
Oh yes Ron, not marrying into an arranged marriage or even living with the person after was enough to commit you to mental hospitals or even work houses 💔 shocking
Even Epileptics like me that have depression, and anxiety were put away.
Back when I was studying to be a nurse ( many, many years ago), I took an elective course on psychiatric nursing, which was on site at a 19 th century psychiatric hospital, St. Elizabeth’s, in Washington DC ( famous for housing John Hinkley after he shot President Reagan). Oh the stories I could tell, some funny, some scary, but most just unbelievably heartbreaking. The cruelty of both the institutions, the staff, and especially families of patients sent there at the turn of the century would make you sob. One section housed individuals who had been there since the early 1900’s (this was 1979), who could never function outside an institution because of the barbaric things done to them in the name of medicine. They each had charts (files) that dated back to when they were admitted which had a photo of them at the time of their admission. Some of them were gorgeous, but all looked absolutely “normal”. I cannot tell you the number of people we cared for that were admitted for ‘promiscuity’, homosexuality, belligerence, and other ridiculous reasons. We were told by some of the old nurses who worked there that many people were sent to places like St. E’s because there was money at stake from inheritance and family members didn’t want to share. But after years of confinement, that included incredibly powerful drugs, electric shock treatments, and lobotomies, they were left just shells of human beings.
Ooh that's so very very sad, thank God we have moved on, I'm an SNA working with children with special needs, to think back then children like these were left in these very places by families who couldn't care for them didn't want to or were forced to do so, I know many went in being of full mind and well able people to be turned into shells of humans as you say, so many died of disease and old age in there, many by their own hand or of others, so so sad 💔
Thank you for finding this cemetery. It's just so sad that people were treated so horribly. Then, forgotten.
So very sad Betty rest in peace to them all ❤❤
So sad but so familiar Sue between mental homes and mother and baby homes Unmarked graves Rest in peace your not forgotten Thanks Sue God bless 🍀🍀🍀
So sad. They shouldn't have to be forgotten.
This is so very sad. Can't even imagine being locked away for not wanting to marry someone or for a disability and in death you're buried in an unmarked grave not even given your name. Rest in Peace you are remembered. Thank You Sue. God Bless and take care
It's shocking, I've tried for years to find this cemetery, only finding it now, I had read the book and wanted to visit very sad
How very sad and sobering. Thank you for sharing this story. I will not forget Rose, or the others.
Thanks Gary ❤
It's a shame these poor soul were treated like animals while they lived...to be treated like trash when they passed. Sad...so very sad.
Thank you Sue,for not forgetting and sharing with us. God bless you.
God Bless Nancy ❤
This is so sad and there are hospitals like St. Senan's. Now the treatment for those with mental issues has changed. The commitment for refusing to stay with a spouse is shocking. I was wondering how many lie interred there.Thanks again for a great video.
100s I'd imagine, unmarked and no real records, so sad 😞
A very sad story indeed. Thank you Sue for finding this graveyard, no names but we remember them all now. It was common practice and so easy to have a family member committed in days gone by, for reasons that are totally ludicrous.
If a daughter or wife did not fit in or spoke out about the way they were treated.
If abused young girls, daughters, nieces etc got to old to comply or got pregnant.
If they refused to marry in arranged marriage.
Plain looking or disfigured.
Excuses were made and donations of large amounts of money were made to just make people disappear. Also up until the late 1970's it was custom in UK to put any child who was different, say with Downs syndrome, Spinabifida, MS or cerebral palsy in these places or Childrens Homes so society didn't see them or mix with them. Thank goodness the World has come a long way since then, we now regard these as special people and special children and love them just as much, maybe even more. I have worked with adults and children with special needs in my nursing career, and found them to be beautiful and loving with so much to give. Thank you Sue 💕🇦🇺
I work with children with special needs I'm doing it now nearly 22 years and they are the most honest, precious and beautiful children on this earth, thank God times have changed
Hello Serenity Sue! Thank you for sharing this sad story. We have Psychiatric hospitals here with patients that were buried in unmarked graves. I always thought it was very sad. Especially since their treatment in the hospital was probably terrible. Thank you!
It's awful, how was it OK? God rest them
I'm surprised this place was still functioning as late as 2015. If any graveyard is haunted I think it would be that of a psychiatric hospital. Thanks for persevering to find this place, Sue. It deserved to be posted.
Thank you, I'd say that hospital has lots of residual energy left there, it's now owed by a huge building developer, he's going to turn it into flats 🤔
@@SerenitySueGraveyards There's a similar story here. The land around a former psychiatric hospital was sold to developers to build up-market apartments on. There's no way I'd want to live there, even though there's a memorial plaque to former patients in a small garden near the entrance to the site.
No way would I either 😪
@@SerenitySueGraveyards I bought some Jarlsberg cheese yesterday. On the label it says "Product of Ireland". ☘🧀
Oh really, I've never heard of it,hope it's nice, I'll have to look into it ❤
Thank you for seeking them out and remembering these forgotten souls. May the Lord protect them.
Thanks Ron
Depressing!!! May they all rest in peace🙏 Thanks for sharing, Sue. ❤️
Thanks Sinead ❤
Thank you Sue ❤.
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Well really happy you found the graveyard. Interesting subject so thanks for sharing.
Thanks Sally ❤
Sadly it happened to frequently, people were put in these awful places for a number of reasons, whether a mental illness, or not. Rose's story is heart breaking, I am going to look into the book, it's good someone remembers her by writing about her. Thank you Sue, it's the forgotten who need some attention, it's a shame.
Poor souls its as if they never existed thank you so much sue for remembering them, God bless them all may they all rest in eternal peace, God bless you sue & thank you for taking us on this journey with you, 🙏🙏🙏🌹💔😪😪😪
Thanks Fiona, you're so welcome 🙏
Very sad place glad you went there they are remembered
Thanks Shelby ❤
That's an awful shame. God bless their poor souls.
Oh it's such a sad place to stand, so many forgotten there 💔😪
So sad people were treated like that
Totally agree 💔
Hi sue I'm working so I'm watching in my break
Very sad that those souls who died and buried there have no name, no family to remember them. Thank you for sharing so they are not forgotten. Is the hospital/ building still in use?? 🙏🙏🙏
It was bought by a huge developer, its getting turned into flats
So sad to be nameless in death. Reminds me of the pictures I've seen of mass famine graves. But God knows who they are.
It is like a mass grave, its just so sad, the unmarried, the disabled, the unloved, we remember them all here❤❤
Like 94 God bless them all that passed in the mental hospital. Can't understand why they don't put names on graves. Well kept graveyard
It's a real shame Fran, think no records were kept for a lot of those who died there 💔
@@SerenitySueGraveyards it a disgrace to the poor souls that are buried there never to be known
Very true Fran, I'd say there's plenty around Ireland, Ireland is great but it sure has a dark past 💔🇨🇮☘
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Oh this one is so very sad
Some shocking treatments where given in places like this,also even little orphan children where put in them because no one wanted them.😔
So very sad
Hi from Australia NSW
Welcome to Ireland ❤❤
How you going as been working on the family history as well work on the cemetery
Busy, busy ❤❤
Heartbreaking 💔💔💔
It is very sad
So very sad, I just visited Enniscorty with my family today and had a wonderful time with the extremely friendly locals, but the minute seen the beautiful and imposing estate on the hill I was intrigued to what it was. After finding out that it was an asylum and the sad history you have shown here in the video I am so sorry, may all those who suffered be at peace, thank you
Hi E, yes like many asylums, I feel that there are many similar and not just in Ireland, very sad 😢
@@SerenitySueGraveyards Definitely Sue, we have come so much further in the recognition and treatments of mental health issues since the suffering of all these people thankfully
Yes Thank God, we've moved on, St. Senans I believe is being turned into apartments, imagine that, it is a beautiful building
@@SerenitySueGraveyards It definitely is a beautiful building Sue , I can't jeep my eyes off of it since I'm down here , pity the government didn't do something with it for history/ heritage
Well I think it's a waste of a stunning building, I think the government should have kept it as a hospital, rehabilitation God knows we need more mental health services..enjoy you time here, definitely try get into wexford and if you like cemeteries there are so many down here old ruins of very old churches and graveyards
RIP
God Bless you ❤
Hi from Ohio USA
Welcome Vicki ❤❤
I get so, so angry over true tales like this. The fact that one of the richest institutions on earth can't even have the names etched onto a plaque makes my blood boil. I've spent time in a mental health facility and can say, I'm so glad they have learned from the past, and the practises have been revised and updated with the times in a lot of places. Thank you Sue.
Thank God for sure, the stigma was so bad years ago the family just left them, we are lucky to live now in a time where its treated differently, those poor souls would have had shock therapy done to them and for what? Not willing to live with a man you didn't know, shocking stuff, glad you're OK now D M, keep well ❤
@@SerenitySueGraveyards Ta Sue. Day by day. My name's Deb Mayo btw. I don't tell many people, but you are special.
Well thank you Deb, I appreciate you here ❤
Soooo sad ,x
This is extremely sad 💔🌹
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It's so very sad
I wonder how many are there
i was told by locals 60 plus
Still hushed up and hidden away it seems, xxx
I'd imagine there's very few records or none at all 💔
@@SerenitySueGraveyards its the same here sue, all hushed up and buried away, no records etc xxx
Their names are lost to time
God remembers each one
So sad William x
AMAZING SUE THOSE PEOPLE WHO SUFFERED AND THE HISTORY OF IT ALL IS APPALLING , AND STORIES OF WIVES , CHILDREN BEING LEFT😔
Oh it was terrible, I believe Rose was put into a work house first then brought to the hospital 💔