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Fort Camden in Cork open to the public

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  • 29-06-2011 8:36am
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    AI
    Registered Users Posts: 167 ✭✭


    Fort Camden, Crosshaven, County Cork is open to the public this weekend July 2/3rd 12 noon to 5pm and also open for the remaining weekends over the summer.

    You can see how the place looked a couple of years ago when I visited:
    http://www.abandonedireland.com/Fort_Camden.html

    Rescue Camden are doing wonders with the place. They have more than twenty full time restoration workers, mostly apprentices, FAS training schemes etc. It is a huge project but they are well into fixing the place up.
    http://www.rescuecamden.ie/

    It is a brilliant place to visit and if you go July 2/3rd you can also see my Abandoned Ireland exhibition on display in their exhibition centre. Highly recommended! :rolleyes:


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    Dob74
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    Great news, have always wanted to go in there.


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    Marioda
    Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭Marioda


    AI wrote: »
    Fort Camden, Crosshaven, County Cork is open to the public this weekend July 2/3rd 12 noon to 5pm and also open for the remaining weekends over the summer.

    You can see how the place looked a couple of years ago when I visited:
    http://www.abandonedireland.com/Fort_Camden.html

    Rescue Camden are doing wonders with the place. They have more than twenty full time restoration workers, mostly apprentices, FAS training schemes etc. It is a huge project but they are well into fixing the place up.
    http://www.rescuecamden.ie/

    It is a brilliant place to visit and if you go July 2/3rd you can also see my Abandoned Ireland exhibition on display in their exhibition centre. Highly recommended! :rolleyes:
    OMg I wish i could get down there for this opening. I spent many great summers down at fort Camden as my dad was a CPO there during the summer months. I've been in fort camden lots of times, watched movies there, took a trip on a Gemini into Cork harbour and lost my skateboard down into the moat, but a kind sailor went down and got it for me. Well I was a teen girl at the time :) Great memories and great to see it being revitalised. Hope to visit again sometime


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    teekayd25
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    Great little piece of music from Skully, who was himself heavily involved in the restoration :

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APISVDg7s3s



    A bunch of other interesting stuff on youtube as well.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhofkn27wzE


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