Scotland
Beinn Bhreac
623M
2044FT
About Beinn Bhreac
Rising steeply above the shores of Loch Goil near Carrick Castle, this rugged Argyll summit offers a quintessential West Highland experience. The ascent through forestry and open hillside leads to a broad, often boggy plateau, where the reward is a superb, intimate perspective of the Arrochar Alps and the dark waters below.
Key Statistics
Rank
28th Highest in Region
Parent Range
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Prominence
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38m
Nearest Town
Carrick Castle
Geology
You are walking on the Beinn Bheula Schist Formation. This landscape is made of hardened sandstone and layered rocks called schist.
Classifications
Nearby Fells
Find It
OS Grid Reference
NS162940
Latitude
56.1037°N
Longitude
4.9556°W
Did You Know?
- •The name is derived from the Scottish Gaelic 'Beinn Bhreac', meaning 'Speckled Hill', a common descriptive name for peaks where rocky outcrops break through a covering of heather and grass to create a mottled appearance.
- •The summit offers a front-row seat to one of the most famous skylines in the Southern Highlands, looking directly across to the jagged silhouette of The Cobbler (Ben Arthur) and the massive bulk of Beinn Narnain.
- •Approaches usually begin near the 15th-century ruins of Carrick Castle, a former stronghold of the Earls of Argyll that sits on a rocky spit jutting into the loch at the foot of the hill.
- •Despite its modest stature compared to the nearby Munros, the terrain remains unashamedly Scottish; if there hasn't been a drought, you can expect the ground to be significantly more liquid than the map suggests.