 An Internment camp was then built in Gormanston to house the vast numbers of Republican prisoners that were captured by the Irish Free State.The Internment camp was under the command of Commandant Morken.The first prisoners to be interned in the camp arrived on 9 September 1922 and there were about 1,000 Republican prisoners interned there, the internees included Oscar Traynor who was made OC by the prisoners, and famous names like Tom Barry who escaped on 28 September 1922, Sean T O'Kelly, Connie McNamara and author Frank O'Connor.