Scotland · Cairngorms National Park

Mam nan Carn

Munro TopSimmMurdo

2 classifications here — Simm and Murdo — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.

Height
986 m · 3,235 ft
Grid reference
NO 04900 77957
Coordinates
56.88327, -3.56227
County / area
Perth and Kinross
OS Landranger
43
OS Explorer
OL52N 387N
Summit feature
cairn
Key col
NO047784 (910 m)

Access rights here

Yes Right to roam: Statutory right of responsible access to most land and inland water.

Yes Wild camping: Wild camping is broadly lawful under the 2003 Act.

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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Daylight
Civil twilight ends

Computed astronomically for 56.883, -3.562. 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 cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Abney level
Record revised
21-Jul-24
Drop measured from
NO047784 · 910 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

Mam nan Carn is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Beinn Iutharn Mhor (1,045 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 910 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

PeakHeightDistance
Beinn Iutharn Mhor 1045 m 1.4 km
Glas Tulaichean 1051 m 2 km
Beinn Iutharn Bheag 953 m 2 km
Carn an Righ 1029 m 2.1 km
An Socach 942.8 m 3.7 km
Carn Bhinnein 917.5 m 4.5 km