This came up at auction over the Easter Weekend, I didn't bid on it but maybe should have. This is the Scottish regiment that was in Lisburn during the 1798 Rebellion, and which took the executed United Irishmen leader, the linen merchant, 'General' Henry Munro's decapitated head down from Lisburn Market House - one source says "taken down to gratify the Scotch soldiers, as Munro was of Scotch descent”. The regiment also had Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland warrant number 340.
Munro's 'Scotch descent' has been explored by TGF Patterson, the noted Curator of Armagh County Museum, and also Colin Johnston Robb who was a respected authority on the 1798 Rebellion era.
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