Sgurr na h-Ulaidh · Sgor na h-Ulaidh

About Sgurr na h-Ulaidh

Sgùrr na h-Ulaidh, also written Sgòr na h-Ulaidh, means "peak of the treasure". It lies south of the village of Glencoe, and is screened from the A82 by Aonach Dubh a'Ghlinne, so drivers along the glen never see it — one reason it is less familiar than its neighbours.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Sgùrr na h-Ulaidh (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 56.620, -5.080. 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

05-Feb-23

Drop measured from

NN130524 · 579 m

Classification history: summit surveyed at 994.0m.

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

The Sgurr na h-Ulaidh group

One other listed summit sits in the same prominence group, with Sgurr na h-Ulaidh 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