List of tallest buildings in Ireland
This is a list of the tallest habitable buildings on the island of Ireland (used for living and working in, as opposed to masts and churches). The island of Ireland has relatively few tall buildings. As of 2017, there were several proposals to change this,[1][2][3] with developments proposed for Cork,[4] Limerick,[5] Galway,[6] and Dublin.[7] 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 88.31 metres (289.7 ft).[8][9] The tallest storied building in the Republic of Ireland is Capital Dock in Dublin, at about 79 metres (259 ft).[10][11]
Tallest habitable buildings
Northern Ireland
Rank | Name | Location | Type | Year completed |
Floors (above ground) |
Height | Picture |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Obel Tower | Belfast | Residential | 2010 | 28 | 88.31 m (289.7 ft) | ![]() |
2 | Grand Central Hotel | Belfast | Hotel | 1975 | 23 | 80 m (260 ft) | ![]() |
3 | Belfast City Hospital | Belfast | Hospital | 1986 | 15 | 76 m (249 ft) | ![]() |
4 | Belfast Hilton Hotel | Belfast | Hotel | 1998 | 16 | 63 m (207 ft) | ![]() |
5 | Royal Victoria Hospital | Belfast | Hospital | 2012 | 12 | 63 m (207 ft) | ![]() |
6 | The Boat | Belfast | Residential, Office | 2010 | 15 | 62 m (203 ft) | ![]() |
7 | BT Riverside Tower | Belfast* | Office | 1998 | 14 | 61 m (200 ft) | ![]() |
8 | Divis Tower | Belfast | Residential | 1966 | 20 | 61 m (200 ft) | ![]() |
9= | Linium Square | Belfast | Office | 2005 | 13 | 55 m (180 ft) | ![]() |
9= | Causeway Tower | Belfast | Office | 2004 | 13 | 55 m (180 ft) | ![]() |
9= | Great Northern Tower | Belfast | Office | 1992 | 13 | 55 m (180 ft) | ![]() |
12 | Belfast City Hall | Belfast | Government building | 1906 | N/A | 53 m (174 ft) | ![]() |
13 | Grainne House | Belfast | Residential | 1968 | 17 | 52 m (171 ft) | ![]() |
14 | Europa Hotel | Belfast | Hotel | 1971 | 13 | 51 m (167 ft) | ![]() |
15 | Lanyon Place | Belfast | Office | 2014 | 12 | 50 m (160 ft) | ![]() |
Republic of Ireland
Rank | Name | Location | Type | Year completed |
Floors (above ground) |
Height | Picture |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Capital Dock | Dublin | Mixed-use | 2018 | 22[11] | 79 m (259 ft)[12] | ![]() |
2 | The Elysian | Cork | Mixed-use | 2008 | 17[13] | 71 m (233 ft)[13][14] | ![]() |
3= | Google Docks | Dublin | Office | 2010 | 15[15] | 67 m (220 ft) | ![]() |
3= | Cork County Hall | Cork | Office | 1968 | 17 | 67 m (220 ft)[16] | ![]() |
5 | Millennium Tower | Dublin | Residential | 1998 | 16 | 63 m (207 ft) | ![]() |
6 | Liberty Hall | Dublin | Office | 1965 | 17 | 59.4 m (195 ft) | ![]() |
7 | One George's Quay Plaza | Dublin | Office | 2002 | 13 | 59 m (194 ft) | ![]() |
8 | Riverpoint | Limerick | Mixed use | 2008 | 15 | 58.5 m (192 ft) | ![]() |
9 | Crowne Plaza | Dundalk | Hotel | 2007 | 14[17] | 58 m (190 ft) | ![]() |
10 | Clayton Hotel | Limerick | Hotel | 2002 | 17 | 57 m (187 ft) | ![]() |
11 | Boland's Quay | Dublin | Mixed use | 2020 | 13 | 54 m (177 ft) | ![]() |
12 | Metro Hotel, Ballymun | Dublin | Hotel | 2005 | 15[18] | 52.1 m (171 ft)[19] | ![]() |
13 | Alto Vetro | Dublin | Residential | 2008 | 16 | 51 m (167 ft) | ![]() |
Tallest buildings by city
- Only includes cities with buildings taller than 50m
- Cities in light blue are in Northern Ireland
City | Building | Height | Floor count | Completed |
---|---|---|---|---|
Belfast | Obel Tower | 88 m (289 ft) | 28 | 2010 |
Dublin | Capital Dock | 79 m (259 ft) | 22[11] | 2018 |
Cork | The Elysian | 71 m (233 ft) | 17 | 2008 |
Limerick | Riverpoint | 58.5 m (192 ft) | 15 | 2008 |
Under construction
Name | Location | Type | Floors (above ground) |
Height | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
City Quays 3 | Belfast | Office | 16[20] | 74.5 m | Construction commenced in June 2019.[21] As of September 2020, the building was reputedly "on schedule for completion at the end-2021".[22] |
The Exo Building | Dublin | Office | 17[23] | 73 m | Topped out August 2020[24] |
Bedford Square | Belfast | Mixed use | 17[25] | 72.7 m | "The £85m Bedford Square project started late [2018] and [is to be] completed in 2021"[26] |
Opera Center | Limerick | Mixed use | 14[27] | 60m | Site clearance and enabling works began in November 2020[27] |
Ulster University Campus | Belfast | University | 12 | 55.6 m | Construction halted from March to June 2018.[28][29] Reportedly "topped out" before June 2020.[30] |
See also
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Capital Dock is Ireland’s tallest residential building at 22 storeys
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Detached rectangular-plan seventeen-storey county hall, built 1968, [..] For many years it stood as the tallest building in Ireland at 67m
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The 14 storey, 129 bed Crowne Plaza Dundalk opened in September 2007
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