The overgrown ruins of part of St Ann's Hydro, Blarney, Ireland

              

 

 Part of the overgrown ruins of St Anne's Hydro, c.1991  

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Inside the ruins of one of the few remaining parts of Dr Richard Barter's St Ann's Hydropathic Establishment early in the 1990s. The hydro opened in 1843 and remained open till1952. The first Victorian Turkish Bath was built here in 1856 by Barter and David Urquhart.
                   

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