Drummond Manor, Belfast
Drummond Manor is a short residential cul-de-sac off Finaghy Road South, near its junction with Redhill Manor, forming part of a small pocket of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century housing on the western edge of the Finaghy district.
Documentary origin
The name Drummond Manor was formally approved by Belfast City Council on 6 September 2004 under the Building Control street-naming procedure. The minute of the Health and Environmental Services Committee records:
“The Committee approved the undernoted applications for the naming of streets in the City which did not conflict with the existing approved street names and to which the Royal Mail had no objections.”
Proposed name: Drummond Manor
Location: Off Finaghy Road South
Applicant: GCS Construction
This places the creation of the name within a specific phase of small-scale residential development along Finaghy Road South in the early twenty-first century.
Historical context
Drummond Manor does not appear on earlier Ordnance Survey mapping and represents a modern insertion into an already developed suburban landscape. The surrounding streets—Finaghy Road South and Redhill Manor—belong to earlier phases of twentieth-century expansion, while Drummond Manor marks a later infill development on residual land.
Unlike many older Belfast street names, Drummond Manor does not appear to perpetuate a local field-name, townland, or historic house. Instead, it follows a contemporary naming convention in which evocative or aristocratic-sounding surnames are paired with terms such as “Manor”, “Court”, or “Mews” to lend new developments a sense of distinction and maturity.
Name significance
The name operates on three levels:
It introduces a self-contained identity for a very small street, distinguishing it from the longer through-routes around it.
It employs “Manor”, a term widely used in modern residential nomenclature to suggest enclosure, order, and prestige rather than to describe an actual manorial site.
It adopts “Drummond” as a free-standing name, not demonstrably rooted in the immediate locality, but chosen for its tone and resonance rather than for historical association.
Drummond Manor is therefore a product of contemporary urban naming practice: a modern street whose name is designed to sound established rather than to record an inherited geography. It illustrates the shift, in late twentieth-century Belfast, from streets that emerge from landownership or local memory to streets whose identities are created as part of the development process itself.
Sources
Belfast City Council, Health and Environmental Services Committee Minutes,
6 September 2004, “Street Naming / Building Control”
(Approval of Drummond Manor, off Finaghy Road South; applicant: GCS Construction.)
Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland, historical mapping
(Shows no street of this name prior to the early twenty-first century.)
OSNI modern digital mapping / gazetteer
(Confirms the present-day layout of Drummond Manor off Finaghy Road South.)