Summit Register

Corbett · Angus, Scotland

Ben Tirran

897 m

The Goet

2,943 ftDrop 246 mNO 373 746

Finder: 222 Corbetts in Scotland

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmBen Tirran897Hunt Hill705.4Driesh947.6Corwharn609.1Mount Keen939.4
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmBen Tirran897Hunt Hill705.4Driesh947.6
Looking north, 3729 km wide, heights ×813 (method).

Ben Tirran is a Corbett of 897 m in Angus. It stands 191.6 m above its nearest neighbour, Hunt Hill, 5.9 km to the north.

The higher hill nearest to it, Driesh, is a Munro, 10.2 km to the west. Its other name is The Goet. The summit is marked by a trig point, inside a shelter.

To scale

Summit897 mKey col651 msea level
Key col NO 287 801, 10.2 km north-west of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

897 m310th highest of 737 in Scotland

Drop

246 m549th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

10.2 km145th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Hunt Hill5.9 km north
    705.4 m
  2. 2
    Driesh10.2 km west
    947.6 m
  3. 3
    Corwharn12.7 km south-west
    609.1 m
  4. 4
    Mount Keen12.8 km north
    939.4 m
1234Hunt HillDrieshCorwharnMount KeenN5 km

Lists

  • 27th highest of 222 Corbetts
  • 247th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Driesh, 947.6 m, 10.2 km west
Region
07B: Braemar to Montrose
OS map
44
Summit
Partly buried trig point in shelter
DoBIH no.
491
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Ben Tirran

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