Carn Dearg

About Carn Dearg

Càrn Dearg is the highest point of the Monadh Liath, the range of hills north of the Spey. Its eastern flanks fall steeply into Glen Ballach, while northwards the Monadh Liath plateau runs on for many miles.

Newtonmore and Kingussie in the Spey valley are the closest settlements. The rocky ground here and on A' Chailleach sets the two apart from the rest of the range, which Cameron McNeish has characterised as sprawling and undistinguished.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Càrn Dearg, Monadh Liath (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 57.092, -4.253. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Leica RX1250

Record revised

27-Jul-15

Drop measured from

NN410941 · 355 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.

The Carn Dearg group

6 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Carn Dearg 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