Visit to Newry Museum

I made an appointment with Shane McGivern, a Collections Research Assistant, to view the Reside collection in Newry Museum. This collection had been mentioned elsewhere as a source relating to the Batts Estate. The Reside collection is concerned mainly with the Kilmorey Estate and the only reference to Batts was on an old map which showed the boundaries of the various estates adjoining the Kilmorey Estate. The map showed part of the Batts Estate near Eagle Mountain.
Unfortunately the map had some scorch damage from a fire in the Reside premises and this may have obscured any date that might have been on it. Shane dates the map to somewhere in the nineteenth century.