placenamesGlenard
Gleann Aird
A housing estate built in the 1930s became part of the changing social geography of north Belfast.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Gleann Aird · Irish · main form · validated name
- Glenard · English · main form
Place & story
New houses in the 1930s
By summer 1935, Glenard contained 1,477 houses in various stages of completion. Historian Sean O’Connell describes how sectarian violence that July brought about 200 displaced Catholic families into unfinished homes. Although the developer had intended a Protestant estate, most newcomers were accepted as tenants; the Catholic Church purchased 48 occupied houses. Much of Glenard subsequently became known as new Ardoyne. [2]
Names on the estate
Council minutes preserved by the Belfast Street Names project record changes to Glenard’s streets in January 1938. One section of Ardglen Park, between Berwick Road and Ardglen Crescent, became Stratford Gardens. Glenard Estates Limited was asked to meet the cost of replacing street plates and house numbers. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Belfast Upper
- Civil parish
- Shankill
- Coordinates
- 54.61513, -5.97196 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 135779 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Glenard. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- An Age of Conservative Modernity: Belfast 1914–1968 — chapter 8, Belfast 400 (2012) · Sean O’Connell; edited by S. J. Connolly, Liverpool University Press
- Stratford Gardens — council minute of 25 January 1938 · Belfast Street Names
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.