On July 6. 1768. Arthur, Earl of Donegall. made a grant of a parcel of ground in the town of Belfast, on the north side of the street commonly called Carrickfergus Peter's Hill," quoted by Bardon pp33-34. "has had its name attributed to one Peter Alexander who kept a Farmers' and Cabmens' inn, which is said to have originally stood, on the present site of the Peter's Hill Public Baths, Peter, however, passed to his rest in 1733, so that the origin of the name remains in obscurity". (Belfast Street Names. John J. Marshall)