Area: BT12
First recorded: 1900
The Belfast and Province of Ulster Directory (1900) lists a small number of addresses on Locan Street. The street is shown on early twentieth-century Ordnance Survey maps as a short terrace running off Beechmount Avenue, laid out on previously undeveloped ground.
Linguistic origin:
The name Locan may be derived from the Irish locán, a diminutive of loc, a word used for a hollow, pit, pool, or enclosed place.