Scotland

Beinn a' Chaorainn South Top

Height
1048.5 m · 3,440 ft
Grid reference
NN 38642 84506
Coordinates
56.92373, -4.65274
County / area
Highland
OS Landranger
34 41
OS Explorer
OL55 400 401
Summit feature
large cairn
Key col
NN 3853 8475 (1022.7 m)

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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Daylight
Civil twilight ends

Computed astronomically for 56.924, -4.653. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

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Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).

Finding the summit

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

Survey method
Leica RX1250
Record revised
10-Aug-19
Drop measured from
NN 3853 8475 · 1022.7 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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Beinn a' Chaorainn South Top is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Beinn a' Chaorainn (1,049 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 1,023 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

PeakHeightDistance
Beinn a' Chaorainn 1049.1 m 0.5 km
Beinn a' Chaorainn North Top 1042.9 m 1.2 km
Beinn Teallach 914.6 m 2.9 km
An Cearcallach 993.1 m 3.7 km
Creag Meagaidh 1128.1 m 4.4 km
Meall Coire Choille-rais 1028 m 4.9 km