“Whilst Apex initially suggested O’Neills Lonnan as the new street name Lonnan cannot be accepted. Under the Order street names must be in English and Lonnan is an Ulster Scots word meaning lane, way or path. We are advised that the name O’Neill is connected to the local history of the area in that it is derived from Dan O’Neill’s Loanen, a name describing the track of land running from Brittons Parade to Springfield Road which goes back to the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. Dan O’Neill was a gamekeeper for William Sinclair, a local landowner who owned the Glenalina bleaching greens in the 1860s. Clearly an important local figure in the area as part of what is now the Whiterock Road was originally Sinclair’s Loanen.” (People and Communities Committee, minutes, 11th August, 2015).