The Devil's Point

About The Devil's Point

Seen from the south, The Devil's Point looks like a mountain in its own right, but it is in fact a subsidiary top of Cairn Toul, whose summit stands around three kilometres to the north. It sits on the western flank of the Lairig Ghru, the pass that cuts through this part of the Cairngorms.

The Gaelic name, Bod an Deamhain, translates as "penis of the demon". The English form dates from a royal visit: Queen Victoria asked her ghillie John Brown what the name meant, and he supplied a tactful substitute rather than the literal reading. Approaches use the Coire Odhar path above Corrour Bothy on the eastern side, and reaching the bothy itself means a walk of roughly 12 km along the Lairig Ghru from Linn of Dee.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on The Devil's Point (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 57.036, -3.689. 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

30-Aug-20

Drop measured from

NN 9702 9535 · 916.2 m

Classification history: Added to Trail 100 list Jan 2020.

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

The Devil's Point is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Cairn Toul (1,291 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 916 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