Named afterName follows a theme regarding Charles Yelverton O'Connor who was Western Australia's Engineer in Chief of Public Works and Manager of Railways. He commissioned limestone to be quarried from the Rocky Bay area to be used in the construction of the North and South Moles and Fremantle Harbour. Waterford is a town and county in southern Ireland. CY O'Connor moved to this town when he was 11 years old. His father worked for the Waterford and Limerick Railway Company after losing his property in the famine. CY attended Waterford Academy and was apprenticed to the chief engineer of the Railway company.It was the skills gained in these earlier years that allowed him to make such a contribution to the Port of Fremantle. This name is considered appropriate given the involement C.Y. O'Connor had in establishing the Port of Fremantle with rock quarried from the Rocky Bay Quarry.
