Summit Register

Munro · Highland, Scotland

Beinn Dearg

1,084 m

3,556 ftDrop 810 mNH 259 811

Finder: 173 Munros in Highland

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmBeinn Dearg1,084Meall nan Ceapraichean976.8Cona' Mheall977.8Eididh nan Clach Geala927Beinn Enaiglair890
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmBeinn Dearg1,084Meall nan Ceapraichean976.8Cona' Mheall977.8
Looking north, 106 km wide, heights ×23 (method).

Beinn Dearg is a Munro of 1,084 m in Highland. Its drop of 810 m is the 34th greatest of the 1,140 hills here.

In the database's Loch Broom to Strath Oykel region it is the highest of 12 register hills, above Cona' Mheall and ten others. It overtops all four of its nearest neighbours; the tallest of them, Cona' Mheall, reaches 977.8 m. On the Munros height ladder it sits between Beinn a' Chlachair (1,087.8 m) and Sgurr a' Choire Ghlais (1,083.7 m). It is 218.3 m above the average height of the 427 register hills in Highland. The database describes the top as a large cairn.

To scale

Summit1,084 mKey col274.2 mdrop 810 msea level
Key col NH 2730 7444, 6.8 km south of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

1,084 m57th highest of 737 in Scotland

Drop

810 m34th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

10.9 km133rd most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1976.8 m
  2. 2
    Cona' Mheall1.6 km east
    977.8 m
  3. 3927 m
  4. 4
    Beinn Enaiglair3.5 km west
    890 m
1234Beinn EnaiglairN2 km

Lists

  • 57th highest of 282 Munros
  • 44th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Sgurr Mor, 1,108.9 m, 10.9 km south-west
Region
15A: Loch Broom to Strath Oykel
OS map
20
Summit
Large cairn
DoBIH no.
1062
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Beinn Dearg

Data: DoBIH v18.6, CC BY 4.0 (method). How high are the Munros?