Meall nan Tarmachan South Top · Meall nan Tarmachan SE Top

About Meall nan Tarmachan South Top

Meall nan Tarmachan South Top, also recorded as Meall nan Tarmachan SE Top, is a 921.6-metre subsidiary summit of Meall nan Tarmachan, a Southern Highlands mountain near Killin in Scotland, just west of Ben Lawers. It is classified as a Munro Top, a Simm and a Murdo.

The parent mountain is often climbed as part of the Tarmachan ridge, whose other peaks — Meall Garbh, Beinn nan Eachan and Creag na Caillich — are Tops rather than Munros and lie to its south-west. The usual approach comes from the east, along the road that runs north from the Ben Lawers visitor centre; from there the main summit is a short and straightforward walk, though traversing the whole ridge does involve some scrambling.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Meall nan Tarmachan (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 56.517, -4.294. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

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

31-Mar-20

Drop measured from

NN 5874 3867 · 889.2 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

3 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 nan Tarmachan South Top is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Meall nan Tarmachan (1,044 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 889 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