Spamount Street, off North Queen Street, is named from Spamount, a house once situated on the Old Carrick Road, which later became North Queen Street. The house may have got its name from a nearby well.
"That on the application of Mr Macrory two streets off North Queen Street be named Spamount Street and Upper Meadow Street. (Town Improvement Committee, 28th July 1881).
The minutes of 26th October 1881 acknowledge Mr Edmund Macrory dedicating a piece of ground all all his frontage to the New Lodge Road.