1804 – Charitable Infirmary, 14 Jervis St., Dublin
The hospital was founded by six Dublin surgeons as the Charitable Infirmary in Cook St., Dublin, in 1718, at their own expense.
Named after Sir Humphrey Jervis (1630-1707), Dublin Lord Mayor 1681-83 and businessman who laid out the area around St Mary’s Abbey after he bought much of the estate in 1674. Jervis developed a network of streets in the area including Jervis, Stafford (now Wolfe Tone) and Capel Streets, as well as building Essex Bridge.
The hospital was founded by six Dublin surgeons as the Charitable Infirmary in Cook St., Dublin, in 1718, at their own expense.
Todd Burn’s Department Store on the corner of Mary Street and Jervis Street was a bustling enterprise on Dublin’s northside.
Demolished to make way for an extension to the Jervis Hospital. “On Wednesday last the foundation-stone of a new- Presbyterian Mission Church,
Jervis Street Hospital was a former hospital that became part of Beaumont Hospital, which was completed in 1987.
The parish of St. Mary’s was large and wealthy and the graveyard became so overcrowded by the mid-nineteenth-century that ‘in order to make room for others,