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Albert Memorial Clock. The tallest building in Belfast is the Obel Tower at 86 metres (282 feet). It is the tallest building in Northern Ireland and the island of Ireland. The tallest structure in Belfast is the Black Mountain transmission station, servicing TV and Radio, at 228.6 m (750 ft 0 in).
The island of Ireland has relatively few tall buildings. The island's first tall building was Liberty Hall, built in 1965, which stands at 59.4 metres (195 ft). The current tallest habitable building on the island of Ireland is the Obel Tower in Belfast, Northern Ireland at 85 metres (279 ft).
Location Image Height Year Notes 1 Victoria Tower: City of Westminster, London 102 m (335 ft) 1858 [28] [29] Architectural height 102 m (335 ft), roof height 98.5 m (323 ft). 3 Manchester Town Hall: Manchester, Greater Manchester: 87.2 m (286 ft) 1877 [30] 4 Civil Justice Centre: Manchester, Greater Manchester 80 m (260 ft) 2007 [31] 5
The Shard is the tallest building in the UK.. As of January 2025, there are 177 habitable buildings (used for living and working in, as opposed to masts and religious use) in the United Kingdom at least 100 metres (330 ft) tall, [1] 132 of them in London, 25 in Greater Manchester, eight in Birmingham, four in Leeds, two each in Liverpool and Woking, and one each in Brighton and Hove ...
Location Years as tallest Height Blackpool Tower: Blackpool, Lancashire: 1894 - 1925 (31 years) 158 m (518 ft) Rugby Radio Station, Large Masts Rugby, Warwickshire: 1925 - 1943 (18 years) 250 m (820 ft) Crimond Royal Naval Wireless Telegraphy Station, Large Mast Crimond, Aberdeenshire: 1943 - 1959 (16 years) 274.3 m (900 ft) Mendlesham Mast
Height (m) Height (ft) Year Built Notes 1 Poolbeg Generating Station, Chimney 2 Chimney 207.8 682 and 681 1978 and 1970 [31] [32] 2 Poolbeg Generating Station, Chimney 1 Chimney 207.48 681 1970 [31] [32] 3 Three Rock transmitter Guyed Mast 152.4 500 2002 [33] [34] [a] 4 Spire of Dublin: Monument 120 394 2002 [35] [36] 5 Donnybrook transmitter
Height Location 1 (The tallest mountain in a territory claimed by the UK) Mount Hope: 3,239 metres (10,627 ft) British Antarctic Territory: 2: Mount Jackson: 3,184 metres (10,446 ft) British Antarctic Territory: 3: Mount Stephenson: 2,987 metres (9,800 ft) British Antarctic Territory: 4: Mount Paget: 2,937 metres (9,636 ft) South Georgia and ...
Entries in the list that are in Northern Ireland are denoted by an asterisk, the others being in the Republic of Ireland. Nenagh Castle Keep Sculptures Spire of Dublin, 120 m (390 ft) Spire of Hope, St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast*, 40 m (130 ft) Gantry Cranes "Samson", Harland and Wolff, Belfast*, 106 m (348 ft) Bridges