Hills of Britain and Ireland
OS Map of Cairnsmore of Carsphairn
Height: 797m / 2615ft • Prominence: 582m / 1909ft • Summit : embedded boulder 12m NW of trig point • Trip reports (hill-bagging)
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Cairnsmore of Carsphairn: Summit (3)
Looking North. The Wind Farm is on Windy Standard on the edge of Carsphairn Forest.
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Cairnsmore of Carsphairn: Polsue Burn
This small Burn is crossed on the descent from Cairnsmore of Carsphairn. The ridge is the one from Dunool to Black Shoulder. This burn is crossed by a rather unattractive new wooden bridge. A short stretch of boggy land needs to be crossed before the landrover track is met.
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Cairnsmore of Carsphairn
At 2,615ft, Cairnsmore of Carsphairn (“Big Cairn Like Peak of the Alder Covered Valley”) is one of only seven Corbetts (Scottish hills between 2,500ft and 3,000ft) in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. The hill is located 3.6 miles north-east of the village of Carsphairn, in the administrative region of Dumfries and Galloway. It is the highest point of a range of mainly grassy hills that lies sandwiched between the Galloway Hills to the west and the Lowther Hills to the east. The hill range is often referred to as the Carsphairn Hills but the name is relatively recent and not that long ago the hills were known variously as the Cumnock Hills, the Scaur Valley Hills, or the Hills of Deugh. The southern and western slopes of Cairnsmore of Carsphairn are grassy and rounded, but the steep northern and eastern sides of the hill are more rugged, with outcrops of the underlying granite. The summit is a surprisingly level, boulder-strewn plateau and at the highest point there is an Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar, a wind shelter and a substantial stone cairn. This is a superb viewpoint and on a clear day the Aran hills can be seen to the north-west across the Firth of Clyde and it is possible to see as far south as the English Lake District. Cairnsmore of Carsphairn is most frequently climbed from the south-west, starting from the A713 road at the Green Well of Scotland. A dirt track runs up the east side of the Water of Deugh, from whence the undulating south-western ridge of the hill may be followed up to the summit. The distance there and back is only 7.7 miles and in good weather the ascent is easy, although somewhat tedious. A longer but much better approach in my opinion is to start from the south-east at Craigengillan in the valley of the Water of Ken and to climb the hill in combination with Moorbrock Hill ( www.flickr.com/photos/67668518@N08/9452921926/in/set-72157632759122808 www.flickr.com/photos/67668518@N08/9452921926/in/set-7215... ), and perhaps also Windy Standard. The picture I have uploaded shows the grassy south-western slopes of Cairnsmore of Carsphairn. It was taken from Craig of Knockgray, above the village of Carsphairn.
20-Jun-10 • Tony Garofalo • flickr
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S1597 - Cairnsmore of Deugh
NX594979, LR77. HISTORY Pillar completed 11th August 1936 costing £26.12s.0d. Computed as primary station PP328 within Figure 3 of the OSGB36 retriangulation network. Levelled to second class precision in 1954. Last maintained by the OS in May 1988. SITE VISIT Pillar completed 11th August 1936. Primary station PP328 on OSGB retriangulation network. Pillar VGC. spider centre open. 3 sight holes open, RHS plugged, innerds filled with debris. FB faces south ~ 177°. Parking on old road, west side of A713 at NX557943 . Followed mapped track opposite into hills. Footbridge across Benloch Burn (NX561951) down, barefoot crossing necessary. No views on day of visit due to fog. Photographed: 7th July 2007, GRP. ════════════════════════════════════ Interactive index: www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1arx2Qmo5mVeVUJA2lzVG_uzbYPW59ffh&ll=55.657375,-3.184530&z=12" rel="noreferrer nofollow Google My Maps Landranger: www.flickr.com/photos/13460108@N06/39960318912/ Trig Pillars on OS Landranger 77 ════════════════════════════════════ Neighbouring Triangulation Pillars www.flickr.com/photos/13460108@N06/8098001980/in/set-72157631793900484/ S6124 - Windy Standard East : 2.69 miles, 36.5 ° (NE) www.flickr.com/photos/13460108@N06/8100971267/in/album-72157631801120468/ S7988 - Lamford Hill : 3.57 miles, 271.9 ° (west) www.flickr.com/photos/13460108@N06/8100958943/in/set-72157631801120468/ S7739 - Marscalloch : 3.81 miles, 159.3 ° (SSE) www.flickr.com/photos/13460108@N06/8109906469/in/album-72157631821839859/ S8313 - Bardennoch Hill : 4.40 miles, 203.1 ° (SSW) www.flickr.com/photos/13460108@N06/8100969374/in/album-72157631801120468/ S7742 - Benbrack : 5.37 miles, 96.3 ° (east) www.flickr.com/photos/13460108@N06/8094743773/in/album-72157631778814317/ S5977 - Enoch Hill : 5.80 miles, 339.7 ° (NNW) www.flickr.com/photos/13460108@N06/8100968924/in/album-72157631801120468/ S7756 - Carroch Hill : 6.10 miles, 126.0 ° (SE) www.flickr.com/photos/13460108@N06/8094745110/in/album-72157631778814317/ S5833 - Black Craig : 6.20 miles, 32.0 ° (NNE) ════════════════════════════════════ OSBM S1597
07-Jul-07 • Graeme5015 • flickr
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Videos
Heading to Galloway, Alistair and Douglas took in stunning views across Southern Scotland from the summit of the Corbett ...
Lucky to get away with only the summit in the low cloud and so we managed to get some reasonable views. All in all a really good ...
A short video of selected views from the top of Cairnsmore of Carsphairn where I recently went for a nice hike in last weeks video.
Cairnsmore of Carsphairn is a hill in the Carsphairn and Scaur Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland.
A showcase of some of the beautiful views of Carsphairn.
Notes
- Data: Database of British and Irish Hills v18.2
- Maps: We use OS mapping for England, Scotland, Wales, and the Isle of Man. Sadly, Channel Islands, Northern (OSNI) and Southern Ireland (OSI) mapping isn't available online, so we use Openstreetmap.