An Riabhachan
4 classifications here — Marilyn, HuMP, Simm and Murdo — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.
- Height
- 1129 m · 3,704 ft
- Prominence
- 302 m
- Grid reference
- NH 13365 34472
- Coordinates
- 57.36244, -5.10475
- County / area
- Highland
- Region
- Killilan to Inverness
- OS Landranger
- 25
- OS Explorer
- 430
- Summit feature
- large cairn
- Key col
- NH152344 (827 m)
About An Riabhachan
An Riabhachan lies in the Skye and Lochalsh district of the Highland council area, 35 kilometres east of Kyle of Lochalsh. It occupies an isolated position at the western end of Loch Mullardoch, ten kilometres from the nearest public road.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on An Riabhachan (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.
Access rights here
Yes Right to roam: Statutory right of responsible access to most land and inland water.
Yes Wild camping: Wild camping is broadly lawful under the 2003 Act.
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 57.362, -5.105. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
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Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
NE top (NH 13828 34751) is about 4m lower.
The recorded summit point is large cairn. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Survey method
- Abney level
- Record revised
- 28-Mar-12
- Drop measured from
- NH152344 · 827 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.
The An Riabhachan group
2 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with An Riabhachan as the independent hill at its head.
| Summit | Height | Drop |
|---|---|---|
| An Riabhachan SW Top | 1,086 m | 13 m |
| An Riabhachan West Top | 1,038 m | 37 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
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| An Riabhachan SW Top | 1086 m | 1.4 km |
| An Riabhachan West Top | 1038 m | 1.8 km |
| Sgurr na Lapaich | 1151.9 m | 2.8 km |
| Sgurr nan Clachan Geala | 1092.8 m | 2.8 km |
| An Socach | 1069 m | 3.5 km |
| An Cruachan | 705 m | 4.2 km |