Muckamore Abbey Hospital

The facility, which is located just south of a ruined Augustinian priory, opened as a mental health facility in 1949. A "special care colony" for people with an intellectual disability, with capacity of up to 1,000 patients, was added in 1958. It was discovered in 2017 that the hospital's new CCTV system had for some time been recording all activities in the hospital, unknown to staff. Review of the material revealed widespread abuse of patients. Some 300,000 hours of footage was discovered including "accounts of patients facing appalling cruelty and physical abuse, and being ignored while seriously unwell." This case has been called "the largest systemic abuse case uncovered in the UK".