Summit Register

Corbett · Highland, Scotland

Bac an Eich

849 m

2,785 ftDrop 336 mNH 222 489

Finder: 134 Corbetts in Highland

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmBac an Eich849Beinn Mheadhoin664.3Meall na Faochaig680.6Sgurr Fhuar-thuill1,049.2An Sithean814
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmBac an Eich849Beinn Mheadhoin664.3Meall na Faochaig680.6
Looking north, 1814 km wide, heights ×47 (method).

Bac an Eich is a Corbett of 849 m in Highland. It stands 184.7 m above its nearest neighbour, Beinn Mheadhoin (Highland, NH258477), 3.8 km to the east.

On the Corbetts height ladder it sits between Sgurr Ghiubhsachain (849.2 m) and Beinn nan Imirean (848.3 m). Its nearest higher summit, Sgurr na Fearstaig (1,014.8 m, 5.2 km south), is a listed top not profiled here. The highest point is recorded as embedded rock, not a cairn.

To scale

Summit849 mKey col513.4 msea level
Key col NH 2093 4502, 4.1 km south of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

849 m376th highest of 737 in Scotland

Drop

336 m361st of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

5.2 km314th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Beinn Mheadhoin3.8 km east
    664.3 m
  2. 2
    Meall na Faochaig5.0 km north-east
    680.6 m
  3. 3
    Sgurr Fhuar-thuill5.4 km south
    1,049.2 m
  4. 4
    An Sithean6.2 km south-west
    814 m
1234Beinn MheadhoinAn SitheanN2 km

Lists

  • 93rd highest of 222 Corbetts
  • 324th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Sgurr na Fearstaig, 1,014.8 m, 5.2 km south
Region
12A: Kyle of Lochalsh to Garve
OS map
25
Summit
Embedded rock
DoBIH no.
907
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Bac an Eich

Data: DoBIH v18.6, CC BY 4.0 (method). What prominence (drop) means, with real figures