Meall Garbh

About Meall Garbh

Meall Garbh rises on the north side of Glen Lyon. Its summit is flat and carries two tops of near-identical height, the northwestern reckoned the higher of the pair.

It is usually walked as part of the circuit around the watershed of the Invervar burn, a 14-kilometre round taking in four Munros. Going clockwise it comes second, after Carn Gorm and before Carn Mairg and Meall nan Aighean. Its summit cairn is an oddity, built from old iron stake posts rather than stones.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Meall Garbh (Càrn Mairg Group) (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 56.637, -4.207. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is boulder 18m SE of large cairn. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Leica RX1250

Record revised

05-Feb-23

Drop measured from

NN 6550 5183 · 865.3 m

Classification history: previously (2014) noted cairn is now gone.

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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Meall Garbh is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Carn Mairg (1,043 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 865 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