Summit Register

Graham · Angus, Scotland

Hill of Wirren

678 m

2,224 ftDrop 311 mNO 522 739

Finder: 5 Grahams in Angus

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmHill of Wirren678Mount Battock778Ben Tirran897Hunt Hill705.4Mount Keen939.4
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmHill of Wirren678Mount Battock778Ben Tirran897
Looking north, 5042 km wide, heights ×1124 (method).

Hill of Wirren is a Graham of 678 m in Angus. No register hill in Angus has a greater drop, though Glas Maol is higher.

Its closest neighbour in this register, Mount Battock, is 10.9 km away. All four of its nearest neighbours are higher, up to Mount Keen at 939.4 m. It sits below Mount Battock, only 10.9 km to the north and 100 m higher. It shares its height of 678 m with Sawel. It is the lowest of the five register hills in the Braemar to Montrose region, where Mount Keen is highest. On the Grahams height ladder it sits between Carn Mhic an Toisich (678.2 m) and Carn Breac (677.8 m). Its nearest higher summit, West Knock (689.9 m, 5.1 km west), is a listed top not profiled here. The summit is marked by a trig point.

To scale

Summit678 mKey col367 mdrop 311 msea level
Key col NO 493 752, 3.2 km north-west of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

678 m640th highest of 737 in Scotland

Drop

311 m409th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

5.1 km324th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Mount Battock10.9 km north
    778 m
  2. 2
    Ben Tirran14.9 km west
    897 m
  3. 3
    Hunt Hill15.7 km north-west
    705.4 m
  4. 4
    Mount Keen17.2 km north-west
    939.4 m
1234Mount BattockBen TirranHunt HillMount KeenN5 km

Lists

  • 134th highest of 231 Grahams
  • 692nd highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
West Knock, 689.9 m, 5.1 km west
Region
07B: Braemar to Montrose
OS map
44
Summit
No feature: ground 7m SSW of trig point
DoBIH no.
501
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Hill of Wirren

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