Moel Oernant

About Moel Oernant

Moel Oernant is a hill in the community of Trawsfynydd in Gwynedd, north Wales, lying within Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park.

Several tops lie to the west of the main summit: the highest of them reaches 466 metres above the waterbody of Llyn Gelli-Gain, and another at Frîdd Wen tops 410 metres. South of the lake, Pîg Idris reaches 429 metres, while the minor top of Y-Foel, north-east of Moel Oernant, attains 430 metres.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Moel Oernant (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 Wales — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in Wales ·check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Computed astronomically for 52.889, -3.871. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is ground 5m SSW of trig point. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

obvious summit

Record revised

12-May-25

Drop measured from

SH 7602 3504 · 362.1 m

Classification history: Submarilyn status removed in May 2025 following redefinition by list author.

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

Moel Oernant is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Moel Llyfnant (751 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 362 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