Blabheinn South Top

About Blabheinn South Top

Blabheinn South Top is a 926.6-metre Munro Top of Blà Bheinn, a mountain on the Isle of Skye also known as Blaven and usually treated as an outlier of the Black Cuillin range. The parent is a 929-metre Munro built mainly of gabbro, a rock offering excellent grip to mountaineers and scramblers.

North of Blà Bheinn's summit runs the ridge of Clach Glas, leading on to the peaks of Garbh-bheinn and Sgùrr nan Each. The name Blà Bheinn is thought to combine Norse and Gaelic elements meaning 'blue mountain', though the Old Norse blá could also denote blue-black or black. Walkers normally ascend the mountain from the east.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Blà Bheinn (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 57.218, -6.095. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is large boulder 9m WSW 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

29-Mar-23

Drop measured from

NG 5290 2160 · 898.4 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

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

Blabheinn South Top is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Blabheinn (929 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 898 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