The Pound Loney was the name for an area in the Lower Falls district of Belfast. The area evolved in the nineteenth century as a place for keeping animals on their way from the countryside to be sold at market in Belfast. The animals were kept in a pound (from the Old English pund meaning an enclosure for animals, cf. pen) while the loney was the lane or street beside the pound. Gradually housing began to be built in the area and it became a thriving working class community. Many famous people were born in the area including the politician Paddy Devlin. In the period of urban redevelopment that began in Belfast in 1960s the housing was demolished and replaced with complexes of flats known as Divis Flats. The Falls Road (Bóthar na bhFál in Irish, meaning road of the hedgerows) is the main road through West Belfast in Northern Ireland; from Divis Street and Castle Place in Belfast City Centre to Andersonstown in the suburbs. ... This article is about the city in Northern Ireland. ... Paddy Devlin was a Northern Irish social democrat and Labour activist, a former Stormont MP, a founder of the Social Democratic and Labour Party and a member of the 1974 Power Sharing Executive. ...