Whereabouts of 'Dam Bank' Belfast?

[Duneane]

Aghadowey - interesting that your link to the record states Belfast No 10 but my certificate states Belfast No 9?? Yet they both state 7 Dam Bank ??
Gaffy - not sure what you mean? I have her elder brothers birth in Whiteabbey and her parents marriage the year before in Belfast?

[gaffy]

... Gaffy - not sure what you mean? I have her elder brothers birth in Whiteabbey and her parents marriage the year before in Belfast?

No problem, no offence intended, just attempting to rule out possibilities for folk reading your topic and trying to help you, who don't have your background about this couple.
 

[Duneane]

No offence taken - glad that people are trying to help 

Still can't find Dam Bank though!! (that's Dam Bank - not damned bank!)

[aghadowey]

Found a [house?] Dam Bank but it was Mallusk direction  Wonder if 'Dam Bank' was the name for a terrace on a street 

[gaffy]

I wonder if it was a local, colloquial area reference, perhaps for a new street yet to be officially named or something like that. 

For example, a Belfast newspaper of June 1900 carried a story about a murder, it contained the following reference:  This occurred at a place called Dam Bank, off Millfield.

Looking at the 1858 map extract of the area between Millfield and Townsend Street on the '6 Inch to 1 Mile County Series Edition 3 (1900 - 1932)', there looks like scope for it to have been in that area, perhaps east of Hastings Street?

https://mapshop.nidirect.gov.uk/Catalogue/Digital-products/Historical-products

[myluck!]

There were obviously a few houses/families using the address in 1871

LINK to birth record #177 for Mary Ann CONNOLLY at 15 Dam Bank Sep 20 1871

LINK to birth record #110 for Francis O'NEILL at 5 Dam Bank also Sep 20 1871

LINK to birth record #149 for Thomas MORAN at 5 Dam Bank Oct 12 1871

For Thomas MORAN the informant was Elizabeth BURNS of 52 Linden St; she is the informant on several births and may have been a midwife rather than a relative

Linden St is not shown on the historic maps but there are none online for 1862-1900.
Linden Cottage was beside the reservoir
As previously mentioned it may have been a colloquial area reference, perhaps for a new street yet to be officially named or an area that had its name for just a short while.

[Duneane]

Well this is getting interesting!
So currently we have Nos 5, 7 and 15 Dam Bank mentioned on several birth entries, along with a link to Linden Street. Linden Street is noted in the 1877 street directory as having 52 houses and being off the Falls Road. http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/Lcomplete1877.htm
On the 1958 50 inch map Linden St is facing Dunville Park between Clonard St and Waterford St - but still no sign of Dam Bank!!
 

[myluck!]

The O'NEILL family were at Dam Bank in 1869 at the birth of son John LINK to birth record #16

But the baptism of John gives their address as Cupar Street LINK to baptism register
There is a transcription of the baptism of Francis O'NEILL with an address of 5 Cupar Street

Cupar Street is near an area called the Mill Dams and William O'NEILL gave his occupation as a Rougher (a person who is involved in weaving a piece of cloth from the loom), the same as Andrew HYNDMAN
Perhaps Dam Bank and Cupar Street are the same place

[Duneane]

I've just checked Antrim Sheet 60 1857 and Cupar Street is named on there - but no Dam Bank that I can see.