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

Part of the overgrown ruins of St Anne's Hydro, c.1991
< Photo: Shifrin

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 until 1952. The first Victorian Turkish Bath was built here in 1856 by Dr Barter and David Urquhart.

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