Beinn Dorain

About Beinn Dorain

Few Scottish hills have a stronger literary claim than Beinn Dorain. The Gaelic form, Beinn Dobhrain, is read as 'hill of the otter', and the mountain rises above Bridge of Orchy in Argyll and Bute within the Breadalbane district of the Highlands.

Duncan Ban MacIntyre, who grew up in the district and worked here as a gamekeeper, made the hill the subject of his best-known Gaelic poem, Moladh Beinn Dobhrainn, or 'In Praise of Ben Doran'. The poem has since had a second life in music: Ronald Stevenson set it in 2007 for full chorus, chamber chorus, symphony orchestra and chamber orchestra, drawing on both MacIntyre's Gaelic and Hugh MacDiarmid's English translation. The premiere took place in Glasgow on 19 January 2008, with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Scottish Opera Chorus, Glasgow University Chapel Choir and The Edinburgh Singers.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Beinn Dorain (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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Civil twilight ends

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Computed astronomically for 56.503, -4.722. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

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

obvious summit

Record revised

28-Oct-01

Drop measured from

NN325398 · 744 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.

Long-distance paths past this hill

One waymarked long-distance route runs within 2.5 km of the summit — useful if you are linking this hill into a longer walk, or want a made path for the approach.

Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.

Reaching Beinn Dorain by train

3 National Rail stations sit 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

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.

Nearest listed peaks