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HMP Maghaberry was built on the site of a World War II airfield near Lisburn Northern Ireland that was used as a transit base for the United States Army Air Forces.At the end of the war the base was run down and various government agencies used parts of the old airfield until the Northern Ireland Office purchased the ground in 1974 and began work on the prison in 1976.Mourne House which held all female prisoners young offenders and remands was the first part of the new prison to be opened in March 1986.