Cairn of Gowal

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 56.924, -3.272. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is a few stones on flat rock. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level/Leica RX1250

Record revised

15-Dec-24

Drop measured from

NO 2235 8224 · 968.1 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

Cairn of Gowal is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Lochnagar - Cac Carn Beag (1,156 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 968 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