Suilven

About Suilven

Few Scottish hills are as distinctive in profile as Suilven, which lifts out of the moorland, bog and lochans of Assynt in western Sutherland. Its remoteness is part of the character: the mountain stands well clear of anything around it.

The mountain is a steep-sided ridge roughly two kilometres long carrying three summits. Caisteal Liath, 'Grey Castle', is the highest and sits at the north-west end; Meall Meadhonach, 'Middle Round Hill', reaches 723 m in the centre; and Meall Beag, 'Little Round Hill', closes the ridge at the south-eastern end.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Suilven (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 58.116, -5.137. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Survey method

obvious summit/Leica RX1250

Record revised

20-Aug-21

Drop measured from

NC213161 · 235 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.

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.

Nearest listed peaks