Barnett’s Green is a short residential street located off Barnett’s Road in east Belfast, within the historic Ballycloghan area. It runs parallel to Barnett’s Road for part of its length and connects with Barnett’s Crescent, forming part of the planned residential layout developed to the south of the main road.
The name Barnett’s Green is derived directly from Barnett’s Road, from which it is accessed, and follows the local practice of extending the name of the principal thoroughfare to adjoining residential streets. The use of the term “Green” reflects a common twentieth-century naming convention for residential streets, rather than the presence of a formally designated green space.
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 road name was approved alongside Castlehill Road and Castleview Road as part of the planned development off the Newtownards Road, with later references to its completion, proposed renaming, and extension.
No separate naming resolution specifically approving the name Barnett’s Green has been located in the surviving Improvement Committee minutes. The street takes its name from Barnett’s Road, in keeping with common municipal and developer-led naming practice for secondary streets within an established residential scheme.
Barnett’s Green forms part of the later residential development associated with Barnett’s Road and its immediate hinterland.
• Street type: Residential street
• 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