placenamesNutt's Corner
Coirnéal Nutt
A contemporary account records the terminal and the hurried transfer that ended Nutt’s Corner’s years as Belfast’s civil airport.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Coirnéal Nutt · Irish · main form · validated name
- Nutt's Corner · English · main form
Place & story
A post-war terminal
Nutt’s Corner’s wartime buildings were adapted for civilian passengers before a new terminal opened in November 1948. A 1963 British European Airways magazine account, signed “M”, describes its waiting rooms, traffic hall, restaurant and offices. The writer remembered the difficult winter transfer of 1946–47, when snow and frozen roads complicated the movement of equipment. [2]
The final transfer
BEA announced that its Belfast services would move to Aldergrove from 26 September 1963. The magazine’s eyewitness account follows vans shuttling desks, chairs, lockers and equipment out of Nutt’s Corner while passenger business continued. Station Superintendent Ralph Thurley had held that post throughout the airport’s civil operation, from the transfer in December 1946 to its closure. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Massereene Lower
- Civil parish
- Killead
- Within
- Aughnamullan
- Coordinates
- 54.63606, -6.15681 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 135833 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Nutt's Corner. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- “Last Flight Out” — 1963 BEA magazine account reproduced by the Antrim Guardian, 14 August 2023 · M (British European Airways magazine); reproduction by Antrim Guardian
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.