We’re ready to welcome royalty to Fort Camden

THE sight of their grandchildren playing beneath a huge tree in Camden Fort Meagher is a day that the O’Brien sisters, Marion and Eileen, thought they would never see.








Camden Fort Meagher is internationally recognised as being ‘One of the finest examples of a classic Coastal Artillery Fort in the World’.
It overlooks Cork Harbour and is nestled on the edge of the cliff in Crosshaven.
Nearly 65% of the fort’s military installations are underground The fort is steeped in history from its earliest fortification in 1550.
It played a major part in the defence of Ireland, Wales and the West Coast of England.
Most of what is seen today was constructed by British Forces in the mid-1860s, over a ten year period.

In 1938, the fort was handed over to the Defence Forces.
The fort has a labyrinth of tunnels and chambers.
It was one of only eight installations to house the world’s first practical guided missle, The Brennan Torpedo.
Visitors can view the last anchorage point of the Titanic at the entrance of Cork Harbour.
Thomas Francis Meagher, after whom the fort is named, introduced the Tricolour to Ireland.