Carn a' Gheoidh
4 classifications here — Marilyn, HuMP, Simm and Murdo — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.
- Height
- 976.1 m · 3,202 ft
- Prominence
- 299 m
- Grid reference
- NO 10704 76692
- Coordinates
- 56.87306, -3.46662
- County / area
- Aberdeenshire/Perth and Kinross
- OS Landranger
- 43
- OS Explorer
- OL52N 387N
- Summit feature
- cairn
- Key col
- NO090777 (677 m)
About Carn a' Gheoidh
Carn a' Gheoidh, also written Carn Gheoidh, is a hill of the Mounth, 15 kilometres south of Braemar. Its summit lies exactly on the administrative boundary, with Perth and Kinross on one side and Aberdeenshire on the other, and the whole is inside the Cairngorms National Park.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Càrn a' Gheòidh (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.
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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Computed astronomically for 56.873, -3.467. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
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Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
embedded boulder 5m S of cairn is highest visible feature but higher ground probably lies under cairn.
The recorded summit point is cairn. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Survey method
- Abney level/Leica RX1250
- Record revised
- 31-Oct-22
- Drop measured from
- NO090777 · 677 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.
The Carn a' Gheoidh group
3 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Carn a' Gheoidh as the independent hill at its head.
| Summit | Height | Drop |
|---|---|---|
| The Cairnwell | 933 m | 127 m |
| Carn Bhinnein | 918 m | 64 m |
| Carn Aosda | 915 m | 122 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
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Carn Bhinnein | 917.5 m | 1.6 km |
| The Cairnwell | 933 m | 2.9 km |
| Carn Aosda | 915.3 m | 3.6 km |
| An Socach East Top | 937.3 m | 4 km |
| An Socach | 942.8 m | 4.3 km |
| Ben Gulabin | 806 m | 4.5 km |