Summit Register

Graham · Highland, Scotland

Carn Glas-choire

659.4 m

2,163 ftDrop 251 mNH 891 291

Finder: 119 Grahams in Highland

sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmCarn Glas-choire659.4Carn nan Tri-tighearnan614.8Carn na h-Easgainn617.2Geal-charn Mor824.1Meall a' Bhuachaille810
sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmCarn Glas-choire659.4Carn nan Tri-tighearnan614.8Carn na h-Easgainn617.2
Looking north, 5942 km wide, heights ×1831 (method).

Carn Glas-choire is a Graham of 659.4 m in Highland. It is also on the county tops list, as the highest point of its historic county.

Its closest neighbour in this register, Carn nan Tri-tighearnan, is 12.0 km away. In the database's Inverness to Strathspey region it is the highest of two register hills, above Carn nan Tri-tighearnan. On the Grahams height ladder it sits between Creag Dhubh (Highland, NN322824) (659.6 m) and Windlestraw Law (659.2 m). Its nearest higher summit, Carn Sleamhuinn (676.4 m, 13.6 km south), is a listed top not profiled here. It is 206.3 m below the average height of the 427 register hills in Highland. It falls on two OS 1:50,000 sheets, 35 and 36.

To scale

Summit659.4 mKey col408 msea level
Key col NH 830 260, 6.8 km south-west of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

659.4 m668th highest of 737 in Scotland

Drop

251 m533rd of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

13.6 km105th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Carn nan Tri-tighearnan12.0 km north-west
    614.8 m
  2. 2
    Carn na h-Easgainn15.0 km west
    617.2 m
  3. 3
    Geal-charn Mor17.7 km south
    824.1 m
  4. 4
    Meall a' Bhuachaille20.2 km south-east
    810 m
1234Geal-charn MorN10 km

Lists

  • 162nd highest of 231 Grahams
  • 750th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here
  • 46th highest of the 51 County tops profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Carn Sleamhuinn, 676.4 m, 13.6 km south
Region
09A: Inverness to Strathspey
OS map
35, 36
Summit
Cairn and ground to 5m E
DoBIH no.
610
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Carn Glas-choire

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