Meall Cuanail
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
- 920.2 m · 3,019 ft
- Prominence
- 94.5 m
- Grid reference
- NN 06981 29554
- Coordinates
- 56.41868, -5.13092
- County / area
- Argyll and Bute
- Region
- Glen Etive to Glen Lochy
- OS Landranger
- 50
- OS Explorer
- 377W
- Summit feature
- cairn
- Key col
- NN 0697 2980 (825.7 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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Computed astronomically for 56.419, -5.131. 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
- Leica RX1250
- Record revised
- 11-Nov-14
- Drop measured from
- NN 0697 2980 · 825.7 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
Meall Cuanail is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Ben Cruachan (1,127 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 826 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
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Ben Cruachan | 1127 m | 0.9 km |
| Stob Dearg | 1103.1 m | 1.4 km |
| Drochaid Ghlas | 1024.4 m | 1.8 km |
| Stob Garbh | 981.7 m | 2.7 km |
| Beinn a' Bhuiridh | 898.4 m | 2.7 km |
| Stob Daimh | 999.2 m | 2.8 km |