Mullach nan Coirean East Top

About Mullach nan Coirean East Top

Mullach nan Coirean East Top is a 916.6-metre Munro Top of Mullach nan Coirean, a 939-metre Munro in the Mamores of the Scottish Highlands and the most westerly of the range's ten Munros. The Top also ranks as a Simm and a Murdo.

Mullach nan Coirean takes its Gaelic name from 'summit of the corries', though it is also known as Sgùrr a' Chaorainn, 'peak of the rowan'. The mountain has a lower peak, Meall a' Chaorainn, to its west, and is connected eastwards to Stob Bàn by a col at 846 metres; the two Munros are frequently combined in a single walk from Glen Nevis.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Mullach nan Coirean (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 56.745, -5.048. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is large pointed rock. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Leica Disto D510/Leica RX1250

Record revised

10-Aug-19

Drop measured from

NN 1343 6544 · 878 m

Classification history: col measured as 878.0m.

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

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

Mullach nan Coirean East Top is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Stob Ban (1,000 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 878 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