Meikle Mulltaggart

Rising just above the 2,000-foot threshold in the Galloway Forest Park, this rounded Tump offers the quiet, remote character typical of the Southern Uplands. Its broad, grassy slopes provide a sense of solitude, sitting in the high moorland between the Rhinns of Kells and the prominent mass of Cairnsmore of Carsphairn.

• •The name is a linguistic hybrid: 'Meikle' is Scots for great or large, while Mulltaggart is a corruption of the Gaelic Mhaoil an t-Sagairt, meaning the priest's rounded hill.
• •From the summit, walkers are rewarded with a clear perspective of the Rhinns of Kells ridge to the south and the deep valley of the Water of Deugh to the east.
• •The hill is frequently climbed in tandem with its lower neighbour, Little Mulltaggart, which lies to the northwest and forms part of the same remote upland plateau.
• •At 611 metres, the hill only narrowly exceeds the 2,000-foot mark, a height that transforms it from a local moorland rise into a more significant undertaking for those tracking Scottish 'two-thousand-footers'.