The third image shows the main detail of the window – a bulrush. The bulrush plant is sometimes used as a sign for faithfulness and humility. It is also used as a symbol for deliverance and salvation because of Moses who became the deliverer of the Israelites and who, as a baby, was hidden in a bulrush basket –
“When she [Moses’ mother] could hide him [Moses] no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.” [Exodus 2:3].

However, the name bulrush can refer to several different plants, depending on where you come from. The plant shown in the window and known in Ireland as bulrush is Typha latifolia. This was not the plant of the Moses story which was probably Cyperus papyrus from which the Egyptians made their “paper”, baskets, and many other things.

The dedication at the bottom of the window is shown in the image at far right and reads,