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158 BALLYKINLAR CAMP DOCUMENTS (CO. DOWN) AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS,concerning the operation of the British Army’s Ballykinlar Internment Camp in Co. Down, circa 1921, 21 folders
containing well over 100 items, many in poor condition, but of considerable interest. The papers include type-
script documents on officer’s pay, routine orders on various subjects, transfer orders, fatigue records, sanitary
orders, officer’s equitation certificates, etc., etc., many signed by camp officers, mostly typescript but some in
cyclostyled manuscript. A very interesting and unusual lot. As m/ss, w.a.f.
* Ballykinlar Camp was one of the principal detention centres for Republican prisoners during the War of
Independence, 1919 - 1921. Provenance: Collection of the late John Cooney of Suir House, Clonmel, an Irish
Volunteer and later a Major in the Free State Army. (1)
€ 500 - 800