Bateman (Hightown)

The estate of John Bateman, 1,062 acres in the townland of Balloughter or Hightown in the parish of Killucan, county Westmeath, was advertised for sale on 20 June 1851. The estate had been in Chancery for some years and the petitioner was John Copeland Jones. John Bateman of ‘Lotown’, Kinnegad, is recorded in the Dublin Almanac and General Register of Ireland (1849), 308. A recording from the schools’ collection states that John Bateman died in Lowtown House ‘badly in debt’. (Coralstown School, https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5009057/4981947) The Boston Pilot (Vol 11, No 29, 19 July 1851) states that the estate of John Bateman was sold to Charles Tuthill for £9,235. Charles Tuthill was an immediate lessor in the townland of Hightown in Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854).