Sgurr a' Choire Ghlais is a Munro of 1,083.7 m in Highland. Its drop of 819 m is the 31st greatest of the 1,140 hills here.
In the database's Kyle of Lochalsh to Garve region it is the highest of 25 register hills, above Sgurr a' Chaorachain (Highland, NH087447) and 23 others. The key col lies 19.1 km away to the west, at 265 m. It overtops all four of its nearest neighbours; the tallest of them, Sgurr Fhuar-thuill, reaches 1,049.2 m. On the Munros height ladder it sits between Beinn Dearg (Highland, NH259811) (1,084 m) and Beinn a' Chaorainn (Aberdeenshire, Moray) (1,083.3 m). It is 218 m above the average height of the 427 register hills in Highland. The database describes the top as a large cairn.
