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Name: | Cairn Fell |
Hill number: | 5621 |
Height: | 164.3m / 539ft |
Parent (Ma): | 1737 Cairn Pat |
RHB Section: | 27B: Carrick and Galloway |
Donald area: | Galloway Hills |
County/UA: | Dumfries and Galloway |
Catchment: | Minor Rivers only (North) |
Class: | Hump, Tump (100-199m), Submarilyn, Yeaman (Hu,Tu,1,sMa,Y) |
Grid ref: | NX 10336 36132 |
Summit feature: | mound |
Drop: | 146.6m |
Col: | 17.7m NX 0986 4124 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 82 (1:25k) 309S |
Observations: | cairn is 6m E of conical cairn |
Survey: | Abney level/Leica RX1250 |
Comments: | Replaced 1738 Inshanks Fell as Hump and Submarilyn in June 2016 |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 57 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Easy parking at NX 1086 3572. Through 2 gates, over a fence, and over a wall. | PGCE | 12/04/2024 |
Planned to follow mae's route but the ground was so wet and ?changes- looked like a fence taken out, I walked along the road to a gate at NX 105356, up the pasture to a gate into the rough pasture accessed by mae's route. Here, floundering in mud and balancing on tussocks E of the HP I was wishing I'd stayed at the Mull of Galloway (qv). The summit area itself was pleasant, views all round good though the skies had turned grey. I decided to descent the N ridge and avoid the muddy morass round the top gate, easily over a broken wall, and down to the gate to the road. Good going back this way despite wet conditions everywhere in the area. | pwheeler | 19/03/2024 |
From track end to SE. | lordtonult | 21/09/2022 |
Park to SE. Through field of cows. Sheep and lambs at summit cairn. | cjo | 03/05/2022 |
Note new car park to SE close to road up. | Adrian | 25/10/2020 |
Followed mae's route from SE, parking at the end of the track. 2nd gate on the left off the track, to electric fence protected point (NX 10582 36069), where the wall is also easy to cross. Great views from the summit. | LizH | 21/07/2020 |
Following a visit to Logan Botanical Gardens, short walk from the highpoint/track crossing to SE, parking enough for a car. Short walk over grassy fields (2 walls to cross), fine cairn. Sunny day. | N.Morters | 23/07/2019 |
small rock outcrop with cairn within rough pasture area. just higher, apparently than Inshanks, from which we had come. Gorgeous sunny day. | Denise | 25/03/2018 |
Roughly direct route from Inshanks Fell over rough muddy cattle trashed ground and plenty of gorse. With TJ and AC. | jonglew | 25/03/2018 |
Some wonderful views across to Antrim this morning. First Sunday after the clocks went forward and always a great day to spend out and about bagging. | Alex C | 25/03/2018 |
From the ESE over fenced sheep pasture to hill top cattle pasture with thickets of gorse. Summit has conical cairn and remains of ancient higher cairn. More great views. | RichardM | 25/03/2018 |
Finally... Back to rectify Sept faux pas....from SE but better from gate 300 metre west a bit to avoid wall climbing | vegibagger | 23/03/2018 |
12th and penultimate hill of the day on a route from Little Pinminnoch to East Muntloch Croft B&B, climbing Knockteenan, Bailie Hill, Cairnmon Fell, Barnshangan Hill, Barscarrow Hill, Barnammon Hill, Soundly Hill, Largie Hill, Mount Sallie, Inchmulloch Fell and Barncorkrie Moor (visiting three of the highest knolls) descending by zigzagging through the gorse then profiling around to the SE before heading up North to the summit plateaux to avoid most of the cattle. Recorded summit as 170m. rocky outcrop @ NX 10256 36081 but also visited nearest outcrop and ground to cairn. Descent and onwards route to Inshanks Fell.... | Dazingdale | 06/10/2017 |
mae's route - wet, wet wet. Returned more directly via 2 gates. | jimbloomer | 07/02/2017 |
Route as described by mae. | RobertP | 21/12/2016 |
From the track in thick clagg following instructions by mae. Thank you Michael. | Eddie | 18/09/2016 |
same route as mae parked track entrance. | robertphillips | 07/08/2016 |
5th field on left over brow of hill on N/S track, then a tricky clamber over low point in cross wall (electric fence not working) and to top. | arranc | 05/06/2016 |
Easy route as described by mae, nicer hill than Inshanks Fell | alda | 04/06/2016 |
Followed N-S track from SE, then gate into second grazed field on left after track starts to descend, then to insulated section of electric fence at NX 10582 36069 near corner of same field, to reach unfenced ground near the summit. | mae | 13/08/2015 |
Drummore - Inshanks Fell - Barncorkrie Moor - Cairn Fell - Drummore. Easy climb from the col with Barncorkrie Moor, bit trickier negotiating fences back to the minor road. By far the finest summit of the three visited though I thought Inshanks was a slightly better viewpoint. | Jake994 | 29/10/2014 |
see comments about Inshanks. nicer hill | Thearlaichdubh | 27/10/2013 |
Climbed from highpoint on road after visiting Inshanks Fell. from footpath to south over several fences. Didn't realise one was electric & got a shock! Pleasant summit with cairn & several other potential highpoints. | citygent | 09/09/2013 |
W Insh fell from road, nr point. This highpoint definitely seems higher. Nice cairn w views up coast, rough ground chewed up bit by cattle. Beware many electric fences. | nordicstar | 16/03/2013 |
Did this from the track that runs S to N. The problem is that a wall with an electrified wire needs to be crossed.there is a low point in the wall in the sixth field from the road. | chrisbien | 10/04/2010 |
Visited after Inshanks Fell which I think is just a little lower on a grey morning with high cloud. | Dugswell2 | 11/03/2010 |
With Rebecca in backcarrier | agentmancuso | 14/04/2007 |
fine summit & view. from gate to N | RHW | 20/04/2003 |
Crumblie2 | 09/02/2024 | |
interloper | 25/11/2023 | |
Fletch | 25/11/2023 | |
jenx | 10/09/2023 | |
PeterAH | 21/07/2020 | |
AndyS | 22/02/2020 | |
Tom Mundell | 01/09/2019 | |
Trekking toes | 01/09/2019 | |
cmac | 21/04/2019 | |
richtea5040 | 03/09/2018 | |
Tony J | 25/03/2018 | |
irobbo | 05/12/2017 | |
tomandivy | 05/06/2017 | |
Dave Geere | 27/01/2017 | |
BaggerGutt | 06/11/2016 | |
Martin R | 05/06/2016 | |
GordonAdshead | 03/06/2016 | |
iaindbrown | 07/04/2015 | |
bjewing | 30/11/2014 | |
softsquare | 16/04/2014 | |
Kiltie | 06/07/2013 | |
Alan Whatley | 06/09/2012 |