Shanvis Court / Cúirt na Seanaise

Shanvis Court / Cúirt na Seanaise

Chantelle Gilroy, a West Belfast schoolgirl has been given the opportunity to put her mark firmly on the future by winning a competition to name a new street. ‘Shanvis Court’ is the winning name for Clanmil’s new homes at Percy Street and is a mixture of two names from either side of the peace line – Shankill and Divis - by bringing the two names together she hoped people from both communities could live in harmony. (Press Release,2006). Shanvis Court was handed over to Clanmil in 2006. The earliest record that is held is a deed of 11th January 1887 which records that John Alexander a Captain in Her Majesty’s First Regiment of Dragoon Guards sold a plot of ground on Percy Street to James Tate, a builder of Belfast. The land is described as a “plot of ground between Percy Street…..Beverley street … and Ardmoulin Avenue….in the parish of Belfast within the Barony of Belfast and County of Antrim”. The name Shanvis Court Off Percy Street, BT13 was proposed by Circuit Builders and accepted at the Health and Environmental Services Committee, on Monday, 11th September, 2006.