placenamesJennymount
Tulach Shíne
Jennymount’s history includes a congregation rebuilt after fire and an ambitious attempt to give its old residential street another purpose.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Tulach Shíne · Irish · main form · validated name
- Jennymount · English · main form
Place & story
A congregation rebuilt
A Wesleyan chapel opened in North Derby Street in 1869 as industrial Belfast expanded northwards. Jennymount joined the North Belfast Mission in 1898. Foundation stones for a new Jennymount Methodist Church were laid in 1904. An accidental fire destroyed that building on 8 January 2003, and its replacement officially opened on 25 September 2004, with stained glass made by Calderwood Glass. [2]
A silversmith’s plan
RTÉ’s report of 22 October 1991 followed silversmith Jonathan Fyffe’s efforts to revive Jennymount Street. He had lived there as an art student after arriving from Omagh in 1979. Starting with numbers 2 and 4, bought for £200 in 1980, he eventually acquired all 49 houses. Fyffe opened an architectural salvage business and proposed craft workshops and antique shops. The report presented the scale of restoration as a major challenge; it did not establish that his wider scheme was completed. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Belfast Upper
- Civil parish
- Shankill
- Coordinates
- 54.61434, -5.92555 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 135793 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Jennymount. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- About Us: Our History · Jennymount Methodist Church
- Fight To Save Belfast Street 1991 · Alasdair Jackson, RTÉ News; RTÉ Archives
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.