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The Meath Hospital opened on Heytesbury Street in 1822 with the purpose of providing healthcare services to the area’s poorest. The building closed as a hospital in 1998 but it remains in use today as a respite care home.
In the 1990s, staff reported seeing the ghost of a woman gliding towards an old door which was always kept locked. They believed that the ghost was that of Esther (“Stella”) Johnson, lover of the author and cleric Jonathan Swift. In the eighteenth century, the site would have been a garden with paddock, attached to St. Patrick’s Cathedral where Swift served as Dean. Both Jonathan and Stella are interred within the walls of the cathedral.
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