Summit Register

Corbett · Highland, Scotland

Meallach Mhor

769 m

2,523 ftDrop 234.1 mNN 776 908

Finder: 134 Corbetts in Highland

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmMeallach Mhor769Carn Dearg Mor857.4Meall Chuaich950.8Leathad an Taobhain911.7Creag Ruadh658.8
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmMeallach Mhor769Carn Dearg Mor857.4Meall Chuaich950.8
Looking north, 2819 km wide, heights ×710 (method).

Meallach Mhor is a Corbett of 769 m in Highland. It is the lowest of the ten register hills in the Glen Tromie to Glen Tilt region, where Beinn Dearg (Perth and Kinross, NN852778) is highest.

On the Corbetts height ladder it sits between Cul Beag (769.4 m) and Beinn a' Choin (768.7 m). Its nearest higher summit, Carn Dearg (792.1 m, 3.6 km east), is a listed top not profiled here. The highest point is recorded as blocky embedded boulder, not a cairn.

To scale

Summit769 mKey col535 msea level
Key col NN 8005 9019, 2.5 km east of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

769 m494th highest of 737 in Scotland

Drop

234.1 m578th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

3.6 km483rd most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Carn Dearg Mor4.7 km east
    857.4 m
  2. 2
    Meall Chuaich6.7 km south-west
    950.8 m
  3. 3
    Leathad an Taobhain6.8 km south-east
    911.7 m
  4. 4
    Creag Ruadh9.5 km west
    658.8 m
1234Carn Dearg MorMeall ChuaichCreag RuadhN5 km

Lists

  • 210th highest of 222 Corbetts
  • 477th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Carn Dearg, 792.1 m, 3.6 km east
Region
06A: Glen Tromie to Glen Tilt
OS map
35
Summit
Blocky embedded boulder
DoBIH no.
420
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Meallach Mhor

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