Sgurr na Carnach

About Sgurr na Carnach

Sgùrr na Càrnach is the middle of the Five Sisters of Kintail, sitting on the north side of Glen Shiel some 24 km southeast of Kyle of Lochalsh. Its Gaelic name means "peak of the stony place", and the rough, boulder-strewn summit bears that out.

The hill drops extremely steeply on both flanks: west into Glen Shiel and east into Coire Domhain. Its main ridge runs north to south, linking Sgùrr Fhuaran to the north with Sgùrr na Ciste Duibhe to the south. A minor northwestern ridge falls to Glen Shiel but sees little use, partly because of crossing the River Shiel and partly because of its sustained steepness.

Until the Scottish Mountaineering Club's 1997 revision it was listed only as a Top of Sgùrr Fhuaran; with 134 m of prominence it was then promoted to full Munro.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Sgùrr na Càrnach (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 57.189, -5.349. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Survey method

Abney level

Record revised

10-Nov-12

Drop measured from

NG977163 · 868 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

Sgurr na Carnach is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Sgurr Fhuaran (1,069 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 868 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