Madam, - Your report "Call for return of hospital to community use" ( The Irish Times, May 18th) attributes St Finian's, the Killarney Asylum, to the architect Fuller in a surprisingly authoritative way.
The Killarney Asylum was an important building of its time designed by the Cork architects Deane and Woodward in 1847 and opened in 1852. A detailed account of its design and construction is to be found from paragraph 3.31 to 3.39 in Frederick O'Dwyer's The Architecture of Deane And Woodward (1977). - Yours, etc,
BRIAN O'CONNELL FRIAI, Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2.