Aonach air Chrith

About Aonach air Chrith

Aonach air Chrith, 1,020 metres, stands on the southern side of Glen Shiel in Kintail. It is the highest point on a long chain of seven Munros known to walkers as the South Glen Shiel Ridge, so the hill is usually met as one stage of that traverse rather than as a standalone summit.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Aonach air Chrith (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 57.125, -5.221. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is small rock 10m N of cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level/Leica RX1250

Record revised

08-Dec-14

Drop measured from

NG977098 · 527 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.

Get food nearby

One place 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.

The Aonach air Chrith group

4 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Aonach air Chrith as the independent hill at its head.

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