The camp was situated near Dundrum Bay, Co. Down and was the first mass internment camp to be established by the British authorities in Ireland in December 1920.
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The internees used their talents to organise craft classes, music, drama and sports events. There is a copy of the camp newsletter 'Barbed Wire' and a play programme on display in the Museum.
On 9th December 1921, three days after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, all Republican prisoners were released.
'In sweet Ballykinlar
If you are a 'Shinner'
And the Fates they are kindly-or even so, so
In famed Hut Eleven, you're almost in Heaven
With the Senior Line Captain, alive alive oh!'