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Name: | Kirkie Hill |
Hill number: | 12228 |
Height: | 76m / 249ft |
Parent (Ma): | none |
RHB Section: | 23: Orkney Islands |
County/UA: | Orkney Islands |
Island: | South Ronaldsay |
Class: | Tump (0-99m) (Tu,0) |
Grid ref: | ND 43837 90196 |
Summit feature: | cairn |
Drop: | 36m |
Col: | 40m ND443903 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 7 (1:25k) 461S 462 |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
N.B. Some hill summits are on private property or on land where there is no public right of way. Permission should be sought from the landowner where access to a hill summit is through private land(*).
*For information about access rights in Scotland see the ScotWays website.
Please report via the contact page any logs you see below which describe or encourage acts of trespass. Please quote the hill number and hill name.
Logged Descriptions (logged by 22 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
Up fields from South | vegibagger | 10/09/2022 |
Parked at Sandwick road junction then up a couple of fields to the summit. Spotting the scanty cairn requires an act of imagination | Colin Crawford | 08/08/2022 |
Parked at road junction. Walked SW and over gate into sheep field. Over another gate onto open hillside then a barbed wire fence to cross before reaching the summit area. Easier than it sounds! Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 01/08/2022 |
Parking on grass at A road junction. Up grassy field to indistinct summit in sheep pasture. Breezy sun, good views. With J Woods. | Denise | 29/07/2022 |
As Denise. | Minto | 29/07/2022 |
Parked on verge at junction. Walk up through 2 fields to highpoint. | Thearlaichdubh | 25/09/2021 |
Parked to SE, walked along road to gate then directly up to another gate, then fence and cairn. | PeterD | 01/07/2019 |
Parked along the minor road to Sandwick and climbed the hill over a gate, across the field to a second gate, through a small quarry, then step over a BWF at a fence junction to access the grassed over summit cairn. Pleasant strolling with good views. T shirt weather. | Gill | 27/02/2019 |
Roadside verge parking (ND 4393 8992). Walked NE on road for 120m; through a field gate and direct up hill to top. | jonglew | 27/02/2019 |
With Adrian from SW | chrisbien | 07/06/2014 |
Summit, cairn in rough pasture. With Chris B. Approached from south. | Adrian | 07/06/2014 |
Dusk visit, last of Orkney Day 1 | RHW | 31/05/2014 |
Parked in passing space above the gate passing space then through fields to barb wire and electric fence to gain summit with Jim Bloomer and Tricky Speirs as the afternoon improved. | Dugswell2 | 26/05/2014 |
Matt | 20/10/2023 | |
SteveG | 15/08/2022 | |
RichardM | 29/07/2022 | |
Tony S | 01/05/2022 | |
Simon Winton | 23/04/2022 | |
jimbloomer | 26/05/2014 | |
richtea5040 | 26/05/2014 | |
Tricky | 26/05/2014 | |
chalky1953 | 25/05/2014 |