page_title: Lecale
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Lecale / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Historic map of the Lecale peninsula, County Down, Ireland (modern-day Northern Ireland).
context_page_description: Lecale, is the name of a peninsula and several different historical territorial divisions all located in the east of modern-day County Down, Northern Ireland.
  It is an area of historical and geographic significance, bounded by the Quoile Marshes, the Blackstaff River, the Irish Sea and Strangford Lough. It has an oddly isolated position, virtually cut off from its hinterland, but open to invasion and influence from the east and south.
  Anciently it was the name of the Irish district of Leath Cathail. As Ladcathel it was a county of the Earldom of Ulster, and later the name of the former barony of Lecale, which was then split into Lecale Lower and Lecale Upper by 1851.
caption: Historic map of Lecale by Alice Stopford Green (1912).[4]
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