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Chimney Stack is a modern industrial structure located in Belfast, Northern Ireland, protected under Historic Environment Division reference 4737. The stack represents the surviving remains of the city's industrial heritage, a period when Belfast's economy was shaped by manufacturing and heavy industry. Its preservation reflects the historical significance of such structures in documenting nineteenth and twentieth-century urban development and the technological innovations that accompanied industrial expansion.
The chimney rises from bedrock of the Sherwood Sandstone Group, a geological formation dating to the Ladinian period comprising sandstone, siltstone and mudstone. This underlying geology would have influenced the site's early industrial development, as the stability of the bedrock was essential for the construction and long-term safety of such tall masonry structures. The character of the local landscape and available building materials shaped how Belfast's industrial infrastructure was engineered and positioned.
The stack's survival at grid reference J3201774177 contributes to the archaeological and architectural record of Belfast's industrial heritage. Such structures, once numerous across the city's skyline, now serve as material witnesses to vanished factories and workshops. Their preservation helps interpret the spatial organisation, scale and technological capacity of historical industrial activity, anchoring Belfast's story within the broader landscape of industrial Britain and Ireland.
Chimney stack - ihr 010369 is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 4737. View the official record →
Chimney Stack is a modern industrial structure located in Belfast, Northern Ireland, protected under Historic Environment Division reference 4737.
Chimney stack - ihr 010369 dates from the modern period, and is classified as a chimney stack. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Chimney stack - ihr 010369 is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 4737.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Dunmurry mound, mary mount. motte (6 km), Motte (6.1 km), Dunmurry fort. rath (6.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Chimney stack - ihr 010369's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Chimney stack - ihr 010369 stands on Sherwood Sandstone Group, bedrock that formed in the Ladinian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.