Fells/Creag Riabhach
Scotland

Creag Riabhach

586M
1923FT
Rank
114th Highest in Region
Parent Range
Data coming soon
Nearest Town
Braetongue

About Creag Riabhach

A modest Dodd rising to 586 metres in the far north Scottish Highlands, located in Sutherland's remote interior. The grid reference places it amid vast tracts of privately owned Highland estate land, characterised by heather moorland and isolated corries typical of this sparsely populated corner of Scotland.

Key Statistics

Rank
114th Highest in Region
Parent Range
Data coming soon
Nearest Town
Braetongue
Prominence
?
41m
Geology
You are walking on quartz-syenite, a granite-like igneous rock that forms part of the Loch Loyal Syenite Complex.
Classifications

Did You Know?

  • •The name Creag Riabhach derives from Scottish Gaelic, meaning 'brindled' or 'greyish crag', most likely describing the mottled appearance of the rock face created by lichen growth and weathering patterns on the exposed stone.
  • •The hill sits within land owned by Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen, who has become the United Kingdom's largest individual private landowner through extensive purchases across the Scottish Highlands for conservation and rewilding projects.
  • •As a Dodd classification, Creag Riabhach qualifies as one of Scotland's hills between 2,000 and 2,999 feet with a drop of at least 30 metres on all sides, placing it among the country's more modest but distinctly independent summits.

Find It

OS Grid Reference
NC586491
Latitude
58.4083°N
Longitude
4.4203°W

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