Blabheinn · Bla Bheinn

About Blabheinn

Bla Bheinn, also written Blabheinn or Blaven, stands on Skye as an outlier of the Black Cuillin rather than part of the main ridge, and at 929 metres it is a Munro. It is built largely of gabbro, a rock that gives excellent grip to scramblers and mountaineers.

North of the summit runs the ridge of Clach Glas, continuing to Garbh-bheinn (808 m) and Sgurr nan Each (720 m). The name is generally read as 'blue mountain', a Norse and Gaelic compound - though Old Norse bla could cover blue-black and black as well as blue. Walkers normally come at it 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 57.220, -6.093. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is boulder by cairn 5m W of trig point. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Leica RX1250

Record revised

29-Mar-23

Drop measured from

NG496241 · 70 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.

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.

The Blabheinn group

One other listed summit sits in the same prominence group, with Blabheinn 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