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Date: 1975 Type: Monument Status: Anastylosed   Click to view large map Coordinates: 26°11'30.43" S 28°00'25.80" E

The Irish Volunteer Monument is a memorial erected to commemorate the Irish soldiers who volunteered to fight for the Boers in the Anglo-Boer War. The monument was dismantled in 2002 and moved, anastylised, to a new location Orania in the Northern Cape. Our map shows the position where the monument previously stood in Symons Rd, Brixton, Johannesburg. References: van Tonder, JJ. 1977. Fotobeeld van 300 Monumente, Standbeelde en Gedenktekens langs die pad van Suid-Afrika. Krugersdorp: JJ van Tonder. pg 154