Foel Meirch

About Foel Meirch

Foel Meirch is not a separate mountain so much as a top of Carnedd Dafydd, on the Carneddau in northern Eryri. Its interest lies in the outlook: Carnedd Llewelyn and Yr Elen stand out from here, along with the Ysgolion Duon cliffs.

At just under 800 metres it qualifies as a Nuttall, and sits in Gwynedd within the national park.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Foel Meirch (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 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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Civil twilight ends

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Computed astronomically for 53.154, -4.007. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is spike of rock. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level

Record revised

23-Oct-23

Drop measured from

SH 6581 6365 · 782.2 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.

Long-distance paths past this hill

One waymarked long-distance route runs within 2.5 km of the summit — useful if you are linking this hill into a longer walk, or want a made path for the approach.

Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.

Which hill this one belongs to

Foel Meirch 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, 782 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