"Resolved – That on the application of Mr. Joseph McMaster the following names be approved for new streets on his property situate off Belmont and Wandsworth Roads and Hawthornden Road: – Pirrie Parade, Kin-Edar Crescent, Hawthornden Park, Knocklofty Park, Knocktern Gardens, and Belmont Drive". (14th December 1926).
"Submitted letter, dated 12th inst., from Mr. T. M. Heron, Solicitor, forwarding application by Mr. Joseph McMaster to have the name of street on his property at Ormiston, situate off Belmont Road, changed from Pirrie Parade to Pirrie Road. The Committee approved of the suggested alteration". (17th May 1927)
This street was called after William James Pirrie who was chairman of Harland and Wolff shipyard between 1895 to 1924. He was also Lord Mayor of Belfast from 1896 to 1897.