Craignaw

This rugged granite heart of the Dungeon Hills offers a much rougher character than the Southern Uplands' typical grassy slopes. Its summit is a chaotic maze of slabs and crags, featuring the 'Deil’s Bowlin’ Green' erratics and a poignant air crash memorial, providing a wild, atmospheric sense of isolation.

• •The name is derived from the Gaelic Creag na h-Eighe, meaning 'Rock of the Echo', a fitting title for a hill whose eastern face drops away in a series of steep, sound-reflecting granite crags.
• •The Deil’s Bowlin’ Green sits on the northern ridge, a bizarre natural pavement where massive, rounded granite boulders—left behind by retreating glaciers—look as though they were dropped mid-game by a giant.
• •A small memorial on the western slopes marks the site where a US Air Force F-111E Aardvark crashed during a night exercise in 1979; despite the passage of time, fragments of the aircraft remain scattered among the heather.
• •The summit offers an unparalleled view across the 'Silver Flowe', a rare and ancient peat bog system to the east, flanked by the steep walls of the Rhinns of Kells.
• •Navigating the summit plateau in thick mist is a masterclass in frustration, as the Deil’s Bowlin’ Green provides dozens of identical granite boulders that all seem perfectly positioned to lead you in the wrong direction.