Sligo Asylum

[lorrainec]

Hello.  I have just found the death registration of Jane Higginson who died at the Sligo Asylum.  It looks like the informant was "inmate" and the cause of death was "mania". Can someone confirm?
Are there any records for the Sligo Asylum? Would like to find out how long she was there. Also, she and her family were from the Leitrim area ... is Sligo the closest for an asylum?  Thanks!

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1921/05096/4399974.pdf

[Sinann]

Mania and bronchitis.
James worked in the Asylum, I've always wondered why they use the word inmate, it's also found on workhouse records, although on this set of deaths they use occupier on the Union hospital/ workhouse.
Here is James in 1911
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Sligo/Sligo_North__Urban_/Ballytivnan__Urban_/756370/
The Asylum is at form number 16.

[Sinann]

Last paragraph page 1
http://www.nationalarchives.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Hospital_records_BrianDonnelly.pdf
Assuming St. Columba's and Sligo Asylum is the same place.

[hallmark]

http://thesearchforanneandmichael.blogspot.com/2016/02/those-places-thursday-sligo-leitrim.html

[lorrainec]

Thank you all for the information! I will try to contact the right people/place for any information.

Lorraine

[rathmore]

It says on the death certificate she was 50 and her husband was Thomas a farmer.

[ffanning]

Hello all,

Im looking for a women named Anne (Annie) McKenna, placed in Sligo Lunatic Asylum in the 1920s, Anne would have been from Sligo.
Does anyone know of a way I can obtain or look into some sort record for this individual?

[Elwyn Soutter]

You could contact Sligo Council's Archivist to see if they know where the records are.

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/County_Sligo_Archives_and_Libraries

Note that in some jurisdictions there is often a 100 years closure on this sort of information for privacy reasons. So not sure if records post 1924 will be open to the public.