Tom a' Choinnich · Tom a' Choinich

About Tom a' Choinnich

Tom a' Choinich occupies the ground between Glen Affric to the south and Loch Mullardoch to the north. Less than a kilometre west lies its Munro Top, Tom a' Choinich Beag, at 1,032 metres; prominence is 149 metres, with Carn Eige as parent about 4 km further west.

One approach crosses Bealach Toll Easa, which once carried the route from Affric Lodge to Benula Lodge before the lodge was drowned by the Loch Mullardoch reservoir. A separate Munro Top of similar name, 955 metres high, stands near Ben Wyvis.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Tom a' Chòinich (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 57.300, -5.049. 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/Leica RX1250

Record revised

15-Dec-24

Drop measured from

NH 1482 2659 · 962.9 m

Classification history: surveyed measurements equate to drops of 149.87m and 149.76m.

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

Tom a' Choinnich is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Carn Eighe (1,183 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 963 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.

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