"That on the application of the owners, Messrs H and J Martin, two new streets on their property situate off Deramore Avenue be named Blackwood Street and Kimberley Street and that they be requested to submit another name for the adjoining street instead of Dorset Street". (Improvement Committee, 7th October 1891).
It is likely this street was called after Lord Kimberley who was the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1864 before he was raised to the Earldom of Kimberley in 1866.