Windy Arbour

Windy Arbour (Irish: Na Glasáin), historically called Glassons,[1] is a small suburban village in the Dundrum area of Dublin, Ireland.

[2] "Arbour" once had the meaning “grass plot, lawn, garden”; it is possible that the name was intended as a direct translation of glasáin.

Patients are referred by the courts, the prisons and local hospitals for both assessment and residential treatment.

[citation needed] Windy Arbour has a number of shops, a supermarket, post office, pharmacy and a bakery.

[citation needed] At the centre of Windy Arbour is the smaller and much older townland of Farranboley, which appears on maps dating from the 18th century.

Entrance to the Central Mental Hospital in Windy Arbour (built c.1850)