Meall Garbh is a Munro of 967.5 m in Perth and Kinross. Its key col leads to Carn Mairg, not to its nearest higher summit, Carn Gorm.
Of the 62 register hills in Perth and Kinross, it has the smallest drop. On the Munros height ladder it sits between Aonach Eagach – Sgorr nam Fiannaidh (967.7 m) and Sgurr nan Gillean (966.1 m). It is a Munro but not a Marilyn: its 102.2 m of drop is short of 150 m. The database describes the top as a boulder 18m se of large cairn. It falls on two OS 1:50,000 sheets, 42 and 51.