Liathach - Mullach an Rathain

About Liathach - Mullach an Rathain

Mullach an Rathain, at 1,024 metres, is one of the two Munro summits on Liathach, a mountain of the Torridon Hills set between Loch Torridon and Beinn Eighe. The higher of the pair is Spidean a' Choire Leith, 'peak of the grey corrie', at 1,055 metres.

Liathach runs as an east-west ridge carrying several peaks, and its upper half is built of many steep rocky terraces, so Mullach an Rathain is generally considered as part of that whole rather than in isolation. The local Torridon Gaelic form of the name is Liaghaich.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Liathach (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 57.561, -5.493. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Survey method

Leica RX1250

Record revised

28-Aug-24

Drop measured from

NG 9225 5743 · 871.7 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.

Get food nearby

2 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 Liathach - Mullach an Rathain group

2 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Liathach - Mullach an Rathain 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