The former Irish Brigade Memorial in Brixton

This memorial shows up on old street finders as being between the Brixton Tower and the AW Muller Stadium. However, when I got there I found something that left me puzzled. I tried finding any information on the memorial and all I could find was an article that said it was the site of a monument to Irish volunteers who fought for the Boers during the South African War and that it had been sold in the mid 90's. I will be honest, I knew nothing about what this memorial looked like, or whether it was even the right one, but I expect this is one memorial that is now extinct. At the end of 2007 I found a picture which shows the monument in the distance next to the Brixton Tower.

I have since heard that the there was some controversy regarding this memorial which apparently was erected in the 1970's, and that it was dismantled and the components were removed to Orania in 2002.
At first the site reminded me of a gun emplacement, but I also considered that it could have been the site of a searchlight mounting for the Brixton Tower. There used to be a plaque there, but its gone, and any artifacts that could be identified are also gone. The only thing I found was litter, uncut grass and a peculiar little display (see last picture).
In October 2011, I was contacted by an architect; William Martinson Barch, who sent me a link to what this monument looked like at ground level. The architect was Johan (Jan) Carel Van Wijk, and it was dated 1975. There is an interesting history of the Irish Volunteers as well as the memorial available at "The South African History Source. Written by Experts".
I revisited the site in December 2011 to see if there had been any progress, but if anything it was looking worse that it had before. The "Freedom Memorial" that was upposedly at the site of the AW Muller Stadium has also been removed.

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2 December 2011