Location of the former barony of Lecale, County Down, in present-day Northern Ireland. It was based on the Irish district of Leath Cathail
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Down
Lecale (leh-KAHL, from Irish Leath Cathail 'Cathal's half')[1] is a peninsula in the east of County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies between Strangford Lough and Dundrum Bay.
In the Middle Ages it was a district or túath in the Gaelic Irish kingdom of Ulaid, then became a county in the Anglo-Norman Earldom of Ulster. Later it became a barony, which was split into Lecale Lower and Lecale Upper by 1851.[2] Its largest settlement is the town of Downpatrick. Other settlements include Ardglass, Killough and Strangford. The peninsula has a high concentration of tower houses. Much of it is part of the 'Strangford and Lecale' Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
^Lecale Lower. Place Names NI. Retrieved: 2023-09-18.
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William (2019). "Church of Ireland Places of Worship in Lecale in the seventeenth century". Lecale Review. 17. NISMR. "Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments...
ISBN 978-1-4058-8118-0. Muhr, Kay (2005). "An Elizabethan map of north-east Down". Lecale Review. 3: 11. NI Neighbourhood Information Service Culture Northern Ireland...
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