Driesh

About Driesh

Driesh, from the Gaelic Dris, stands in the Grampians a few miles north of Kirriemuir in Angus. Apart from Mount Keen it is the most easterly of the Munros.

Its proximity to Dundee makes it a favourite with people from the city, occupying much the same place in local hillwalking as Ben Lomond does for Glasgow.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Driesh (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 56.848, -3.197. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Survey method

Leica RX1250

Record revised

30-Oct-21

Drop measured from

NO 2603 7380 · 810.7 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

Driesh is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Glas Maol (1,068 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 811 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