An urban explorer has discovered a chilling abandoned mother and baby home that he says “resembles a prison”.
Jamie Robinson was taken back by the atmosphere of the venue when he ventured inside.
The 25-year-old found old beds, morgue trolleys and a chapel.
He described the eerie silence of the building as “like stepping back in time” with every corridor carrying a heavy sense of history.
“It was very dark and creepy,” the content creator, from Belfast, Northern Ireland, told Need To Know.
“It housed unmarried mothers and their children, often in overcrowded conditions, with high infant mortality rates and many forced adoptions.
“Like other such institutions in Ireland, it was later investigated for neglect and abuse, and the order has since apologised for the suffering caused.”
According to Jamie, the mother and baby home in County Westmeath, Ireland, operated between 1935 and 1971 with 5,000 mums admitted to the home at one point.
Jamie, who has more than 21,700 followers, has chosen not to share the exact location of the home.
Some of his images show the exterior of the vast, dark-grey building surrounded in overgrowth.
Scattered outside are wheelchairs, old beds and weathered statues.
Inside, photos reveal abandoned bedrooms and bathrooms, as well as a padded room.
Other walls are marked with faded drawings, which add to the unsettling atmosphere.
A handful of images capture the chapel, where old pews, paintings, crucifixes and the pulpit still stand — relics of once-regular worship.
In the footage, bedrooms appear with locks fixed only on the outside, and some doors are even fitted with peep holes.
Jamie says that during the Covid-19 pandemic, the site briefly reopened as an overflow hospital.
But it has been left to decay since 2020.
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