Barnett’s Crescent is a residential crescent located off Barnett’s Road in east Belfast, within the historic Ballycloghan area. It forms part of the group of subsidiary residential streets laid out off Barnett’s Road.
The name Barnett’s Crescent is derived directly from Barnett’s Road, from which it is accessed, and reflects the established local practice of extending the name of the principal thoroughfare to adjoining residential streets of varying form.
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. 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 later references to the road’s completion, proposed renaming, and subsequent continuation.
No separate naming resolution specifically approving the name Barnett’s Crescent has been located in the surviving Improvement Committee minutes. The crescent takes its name from Barnett’s Road, following common municipal and developer-led naming practice for secondary streets within a planned residential layout.
Barnett’s Crescent forms part of the later residential development associated with Barnett’s Road and its immediate hinterland.
• Street type: Residential crescent
• 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