Mam Sodhail

About Mam Sodhail

Mam Sodhail, Màm Sabhail in Gaelic and sometimes anglicised as Mam Soul, means 'rounded mountain of barns'. It stands beside Carn Eige in the secluded country on the north side of Glen Affric, some 30 kilometres east of Kyle of Lochalsh, and is classed as a Munro.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Mam Sodhail (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 57.280, -5.120. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is rock by tiny cairn c 45m SE of windshelter. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Leica Disto D510/Leica RX1250

Record revised

31-Jul-14

Drop measured from

NH 1200 2584 · 1047 m

Classification history: col height measured to be 1047.0m.

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

Mam Sodhail is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Carn Eighe (1,183 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 1,047 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