placenamesPond Park
Páirc an Locháin
The Lisburn district has a history shaped by housing growth, educational change and the former homes of local families.
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
- Páirc an Locháin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Pond Park · English · main form
Place & story
A school for a growing district
The growth of housing at Pond Park prompted a proposal in 1980 to move Brownlee Primary School from Wallace Avenue to the new residential area. Parents and governors opposed the transfer. Brownlee stayed where it was, while a separate Pond Park Primary School opened in 1981. Pond Park’s own school history records another change in 2009, when it moved into a new building. [2] [3]
The Rathvarna building
In June 2009 the former Rathvarna Teachers’ Resource Centre on Pond Park Road became the subject of a conservation campaign. A proposal to demolish the house and replace it with eight dwellings drew an objection from local architect Nicola Waddington. Her concern extended to the mature trees around the building. The contemporary newspaper report records both a request to protect the house and a request to preserve its trees. [4]
Ronnie Adams and Pond Park House
Rally driver Ronnie Adams lived with his family at Pond Park House after returning to Northern Ireland from childhood years in Shropshire. His 2004 obituary identifies the house as the place where his interest in motor sport developed. Adams later won the 1956 Monte Carlo Rally in a Jaguar Mark VIIM, with Frank Bigger and Derek Johnston. Jaguar’s heritage collection includes a Roy Nockolds painting commemorating their victory. [5] [6]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Massereene Upper
- Civil parish
- Derryaghy
- Within
- Clogher
- Coordinates
- 54.52686, -6.06904 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 135838 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Pond Park. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- 150 Years of Brownlee · Brownlee Primary School
- Principal: school history · Pond Park Primary School
- Call to save Victorian villa from demolition, 5 June 2009 · Jenny Monroe, Ulster Star; Lisburn.com archive
- Lisburn man Ronnie Adams dies aged 88, 30 April 2004 · Jakki Black; Lisburn.com archive
- Jaguar Mark VIIM Monte Carlo Rally, Roy Nockolds, 1956 · Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.