“Hill Street was formerly Foundry Row. so called from Abel Hodskis, who had a foundry there. Abel may have been a son or grandson of Richard Hoskins: blacksmith, Freeman of Belfast in 1730. Earliest foundry in Belfast of which we have any record is that of Stewart Hodskis who had a foundry here prior to 1756. It was on unenclosed ground on the east side of Donegal! Street, one of the entrances to it being from the present Hill Street, then called Pot House Lane”. Origins of Belfast Street Names, John J Marshall