Ballylucas
{{Short description|Townland in County Down, Northern Ireland}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{one source|date=April 2007}}
{{Infobox UK place
| official_name = Ballylucas
| irish_name = Baile Lúcáis
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| static_image_caption = The junction of Scollogs Hill Road at the Ballylucas Road near Rathmullan Church
| static_image_alt = Scollogs Hill
| map_type = Northern Ireland
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| irish_grid_reference =
| lieutenancy_northern_ireland = County Down
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Ballylucas is a townland five kilometres south of Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland.{{cite web |title=Ballylucas Townland, Co. Down |url=https://www.townlands.ie/down/lecale-upper/rathmullan/tyrella/ballylucas/ |website=townlands.ie |access-date=2 April 2025}} It is {{Convert|302.28|acre|km2|abbr=on|order=flip|sigfig=3}} in area. Ballylucas is located in the Electoral Division of Tyrella, within the Civil Parish of Rathmullan, in the barony of Lecale Upper, County Down. The Irish name for Ballylucas is Baile Lúcáis.
History
The townland of Ballylucas was recorded as Lucaston in 1518 and later as Ballylucas around 1659. This suggests that the name was originally coined in English, likely during the Norman period, and was later Gaelicised to Baile Lúcáis. The English surname Lucas is an older form of Luke, now common in all provinces except Connacht.{{cite book |last=MacLysaght |first=E. |title=The Surnames of Ireland |year=1988 |publisher=Irish Academic Press |isbn=978-1-911024-64-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hiGyDgAAQBAJ&dq=MacLysaght+1985&pg=PT6 |access-date=2 April 2025}} This name has been recorded in Ireland since the fourteenth century and is sometimes found as an abbreviated form of the Scottish surname Mac Lucas.
It was part of Charles Russell's estate in 1650; proprietor Mr Hamilton- authority Bernard Marmion in 1836
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