REMEMBER ORR

The Society of United Irishmen was founded in Belfast in October 1791 with the aim of ending the sectarian troubles of the time. They wanted to wipe away the old divisions of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter and find a common identity. It began as a peaceful means of seeking reform but when the French offered to help any people who rose against their government the society was made illegal and the administering of its oath was a capital offence.

 William Orr was so accused and after a year in Carrickfergus jail he was tried and hanged at the Three Sisters. His body was taken to Ballynure for a wake in the Presbyterian Church before being buried in his sister's grave at Templepatrick in County Antrim

 When the rising came in 1798 thousands of fellow Presbyterians from Ballyclare, Ballynure, Ballyeaston, Doagh and the rest of the Six Mile Valley went into the Battle of Antrim with the words "Remember Orr"

 Two hundred years later this stone has been placed on his grave as commemorations of the rising were held thoughout the whole of Ireland.