- Height
- 735 m · 2,411 ft
- Prominence
- 20.9 m
- Grid reference
- SH 71318 65428
- Coordinates
- 53.17035, -3.92660
- County / area
- Conwy
- Region
- Snowdonia
- OS Landranger
- 115
- OS Explorer
- OL17E
- Summit feature
- sloping slab
- Key col
- SH 7119 6546 (714.1 m)
Access rights here
Conditional Right to roam: Right to roam only on mapped CRoW open access land.
Permission needed Wild camping: Permission needed everywhere.
General position for Wales — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in Wales · check another location.
Daylight at this summit today
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Computed astronomically for 53.170, -3.927. 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
The recorded summit point is sloping slab. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Survey method
- Abney level/Leica RX1250
- Record revised
- 13-Dec-17
- Drop measured from
- SH 7119 6546 · 714.1 m
Classification history: summit measured as 735.0m.
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
Craig Eigiau is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Carnedd Llewelyn (1,064 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 714 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Foel Grach | 975.4 m | 2.5 km |
| Pen yr Helgi Du | 832.6 m | 2.8 km |
| Garnedd Uchaf | 925 m | 3 km |
| Carnedd Llewelyn | 1064 m | 3.1 km |
| Pen Llithrig y Wrach | 798.6 m | 3.1 km |
| Foel-fras | 944.1 m | 3.2 km |