Eglantine Avenue

Eglantine Avenue
BT9
Year approved: 1877

"...on the application of Mr James K Ritchie to name the new street at the north end of Saint Thomas Church Eglantine Avenue". (31st January 1877).  

Dean in his book on Ulster gate lodges writes that the house and gate lodge at Eglantine Hill pre 1832 were built for Hugh Hyndman a “West India merchant”. Martin’s Belfast Directory 1839 records an address of a barrister at Eglantine Hill.