Municipal records show that Meenan Street, Brennan Street and Loftus Street were already well established by 1868. A report of the Works Committee published in the Belfast News-Letter on 8 May 1868 records permissions for water connections to 26 houses in Meenan Street, 12 in Brennan Street and 4 in Loftus Street. These entries indicate that the streets formed part of a coordinated phase of residential development in the mid-1860s.