Egmont Gardens in the Sandy Row area recalls the earlier Egmont Street. The name Egmont is best known through the title of Lamoral, Count of Egmont (1522-68), who was a hero in the Low Countries for opposing the Inquisition in Flanders, for which he was executed by the Spanish. However, there is also a title in the Irish peerage: Earl of Egmont. This was created in 1733 for John Perceval and, although he claimed descent from the Dutch Egmont family, is derived from Egmont, his estate in Co. Cork. The title remained in the Perceval family and was only extinguished in 2011. It is likely that Egmont Gardens is named after one of the Irish Earls of Egmont.
“On the application of the owners of property it was resolved that the following names for new streets be approved of: Egmont Street for a street on Mr. Hugh Scott’s property at Bentham Street. and Matilda Street....” (11th April 1894).