A' Chailleach

About A' Chailleach

A' Chailleach - Gaelic for 'the old woman', or the Cailleach - is one of the Monadhliath Mountains, standing seven kilometres northwest of Newtonmore and the Spey Valley within the Cairngorms National Park. Its summit reaches 929 metres, making it a Munro.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on A' Chailleach (Monadhliath Mountains) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

General position for Scotland — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in Scotland ·check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Computed astronomically for 57.110, -4.179. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is cairn/windshelter. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Leica RX1250

Record revised

24-Dec-20

Drop measured from

NH 6745 0432 · 820.9 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Reaching A' Chailleach by train

One National Rail station sits within 8 km of the summit — close enough to make a car-free day of it. Distances are straight lines, not walking routes.

Each station page lists every hill in its reach, long-distance paths from the door and a live-times link — see all stations with hills in reach. Station positions from NaPTAN (OGL v3.0).

Get food nearby

3 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).

Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.

Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.

Which hill this one belongs to

A' Chailleach is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Carn Dearg (946 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 821 m.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks