Barnett’s Court is a short residential cul-de-sac located off Barnett’s Road in east Belfast, within the historic Ballycloghan area. It forms part of the residential development laid out along and behind Barnett’s Road, close to Castleview Road and Knockburn Park.
The name Barnett’s Court is directly derived from Barnett’s Road, from which it is accessed, and reflects the established local naming pattern whereby minor courts and closes adopted the name of the principal thoroughfare.
Barnett’s Road was approved in 1901 and was named after Dr Henry Norman Barnett, a specialist in ear, nose and throat medicine who lived nearby at Thornhill on the Upper Newtownards Road. Contemporary municipal records show that the name was approved alongside Castlehill Road and Castleview Road as part of the planned development off the Newtownards Road, with subsequent references relating to the road’s completion, extension, and proposed renaming.
No separate naming resolution for Barnett’s Court has been located in the surviving Improvement Committee minutes. The court takes its name from Barnett’s Road, from which it is accessed.
Barnett’s Court forms part of the later residential development associated with Barnett’s Road and its immediate hinterland.
• Street type: Residential cul-de-sac
• Area: Ballycloghan, east Belfast
• Postcode district: BT5
• Associated street: Barnett’s Road
• Belfast Corporation Improvement Committee Minutes, 18 June 1901
• Belfast Corporation Improvement Committee Minutes, 17 May 1904
• Belfast Corporation Improvement Committee Minutes, 18 February 1908
• Belfast Corporation Improvement Committee Minutes, 7 May 1935
• Keith Haines, Knock, Knock… Who Was There? (2014), pp. 58–66
• Ordnance Survey maps of Belfast