Camden Fort Meagher is a coastal defence fortification close to Crosshaven, County Cork, Ireland.

[4] It remained largely overgrown until 2010 when a group of local volunteers began restoration and development of the fort for heritage and tourism purposes.

[14][15] However, a Royal Commission in the 1850s gave renewed consideration to the strategic importance of the harbour, and proposed enhancements to landward defences and seaward gun batteries.

After the Irish War of Independence, under the Anglo-Irish Treaty the harbour defences remained in the control of the British government.

[3] In the 1980s the army handed over the fort to the local civil administration authority, Cork County Council.

In 2010 Cork County Council afforded a lease to community members from Crosshaven,[2] who instrumented a volunteer campaign to clear and redevelop the fort as a heritage tourism site.

With input from Cork County Council, FÁS, and other partners, the group began to clean, restore, develop and (ultimately) operate the fort as a tourism and heritage centre.

[20] Parts of the site have been restored for self-guided and guided tours – though several areas are not accessible to visitors with reduced mobility.

[27] The casemated barracks on the north-east corner (close to the land entrance) housed the garrison and commanded the landward defences.

On the ramparts, the terreplein had a number of movable cannon (supported by fixed magazines)[26] and covered an arc of the landward approaches.

In the centre of the fort a spiral staircase leads down from the parade ground to the vaulted main powder magazine.