Creag Gharbh

A 542-metre Dodd standing in the hills northeast of Inverness, overlooking the lower reaches of Strathnairn. The summit offers views across the Inner Moray Firth and towards the Cairngorms. A modest ascent on rough moorland and grass, typical of the forested and farming country between the Great Glen and the Moray coast.

• •The name derives from Scottish Gaelic 'creag gharbh', meaning 'rough crag' or 'rough rocky outcrop', a common descriptive name throughout the Highlands applied to hills with exposed rock or broken ground on their flanks.
• •The hill sits within the former county of Inverness-shire, in country that was once heavily contested during the conflicts between clans and crown in the 17th and 18th centuries, though no specific events are recorded on the hill itself.
• •As a Dodd, it qualifies as one of the hills between 500 and 599 metres in Scotland, a classification introduced by hillwalkers to identify mid-height summits often overlooked in favour of higher Munros and Corbetts.