Sgurr na Ciste Duibhe

About Sgurr na Ciste Duibhe

One of the Five Sisters of Kintail, Sgurr na Ciste Duibhe is also recorded as Sgurr nan Cisteachan Dubha. It rises above the north side of Glen Shiel in the Northwest Highlands, some 27 kilometres south-east of Kyle of Lochalsh, and at 1,027 metres it qualifies as a Munro.

Its place in the Five Sisters chain means it is normally encountered as part of that ridge rather than as a separate objective.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Sgùrr na Ciste Duibhe (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 57.181, -5.337. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is large well built 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

11-Oct-16

Drop measured from

NG977154 · 849 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.

The Sgurr na Ciste Duibhe group

One other listed summit sits in the same prominence group, with Sgurr na Ciste Duibhe as the independent hill at its head.

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