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Ballaghmore Court, BUSHMILLS, BT57 8RQ

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At the north end of the village, looking east along Main Street

This statue celebrates the Scots Irish connection and the cultures of the same.

This Ulster Scots sculpture is the work of the sculptor Ross Wilson. The pathway leading to the Angel has inlaid a poem by the Ulster Scots poet James Fenton. Fenton, a teacher born in 1931, was brought up in Drumdarragh and Ballinaloob, County Antrim where Ulster Scots was the everyday tongue.

The pathway leading to the Alphabet Angel - the work of the sculptor Ross Wilson - has inlaid a poem in Ulster Scots by the teacher-poet James Fenton. Fenton,was brought up in Drumdarragh and Ballinaloob, County Antrim, townlands where Ulster Scots was the everyday tongue. On the following link James Fenton can be heard reading the extract at the unveilling of the statue in 2005. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ulsterscots/library/unveiling-of-ross-wilsons-alphabet-angel

This explains the symbols and meaning incorporated by the sculptor Ross Wilson in his Ulster-Scots sculpture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Wilson_(artist)

This Ulster Scots sculpture is the work of the sculptor Ross Wilson. The pathway leading to the Angel has inlaid a poem by the Ulster Scots poet James Fenton. Fenton, a teacher born in 1931 was brought up in Drumdarragh and Ballinaloob, County Antrim where Ulster Scots was the everyday tongue.

For clarity, the text is copied here: No. 12/18645 SERGEANT ROBERT QUIGG V.C. 12th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles Robert Quigg (1885-1955) was awarded the Victoria Cross medal for most conspicuous bravery at the Battle of the Somme. "On 1st July 1916, he advanced to the assault with his platoon three times. Early next morning, hearing a rumour that his platoon officer was lying out wounded, he went out seven times to look for him under heavy shell and machine gun fire, each time bringing back a wounded man. The last man he dragged in on a waterproof sheet from within a few yards of the enemy's wire. He was seven hours engaged in this most gallant work and finally was so exhausted that he had to give it up." After his service with the army, be returned home to live near Bushmills and is buried in the graveyard of Billy Parish Church. Pictured here Image]

This statue celebrates the shared cultures of Scotland and Northern Ireland. In this region and even further afield words people use a "language that the strangers do not know" sometimes!