Summit Register

Corbett · Highland, Scotland

Cul Beag

769.4 m

2,524 ftDrop 546 mNC 140 088

Finder: 134 Corbetts in Highland

sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmCul Beag769.4Stac Pollaidh612.4Cul Mor849.7Beinn an Eoin617.9Sgurr an Fhidhleir703.9
sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmCul Beag769.4Stac Pollaidh612.4Cul Mor849.7
Looking north, 1711 km wide, heights ×57 (method).

Cul Beag is a Corbett of 769.4 m in Highland. Its drop of 546 m is 71% of its height: the col linking it to higher ground is only 223 m above sea level.

It stands 157 m above its nearest neighbour, Stac Pollaidh, 3.8 km to the north-west. On the Corbetts height ladder it sits between Carn Dearg (Highland, NN357948) (769.6 m) and Meallach Mhor (769 m). Its nearest higher summit, Creag nan Calman (829.2 m, 3.2 km north-east), is a listed top not profiled here. The highest point is recorded as rock, not a cairn.

To scale

Summit769.4 mKey col223 mdrop 546 msea level
Key col NC 171 082, 3.2 km east of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

769.4 m493rd highest of 737 in Scotland

Drop

546 m156th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

3.2 km537th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Stac Pollaidh3.8 km north-west
    612.4 m
  2. 2
    Cul Mor3.8 km north-east
    849.7 m
  3. 3
    Beinn an Eoin4.3 km south-west
    617.9 m
  4. 4
    Sgurr an Fhidhleir5.7 km south-west
    703.9 m
1234Stac PollaidhCul MorBeinn an EoinN2 km

Lists

  • 209th highest of 222 Corbetts
  • 475th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Creag nan Calman, 829.2 m, 3.2 km north-east
Region
16F: Lochinver to Ullapool
OS map
15
Summit
Rock
DoBIH no.
1207
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Cul Beag

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