Muckamore Abbey Hospital

The Muckamore Abbey Hospital is a health facility on Abbey Road, Muckamore, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

It is managed by the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.

The facility, which is located just south of a ruined Augustinian priory,[1] opened as a mental health facility in 1949.

[2][3] A "special care colony" for people with an intellectual disability, with capacity of up to 1,000 patients, was added in 1958.

[4] Following a 2019 investigation into alleged abuses at the hospital, the Department of Health stated that it was considering a planned closure of the hospital.