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| Name: | The Point |
| Hill number: | 8244 |
| Height: | 51m / 167ft |
| Parent (Ma): | none |
| RHB Section: | 03B: Loch Linnhe to Loch Etive |
| County/UA: | Argyll and Bute |
| Island: | Lismore |
| Class: | Tump (0-99m) (Tu,0) |
| Grid ref: | NM893462 (est) |
| Drop: | 34m |
| Col: | 17m NM884451  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 49 (1:25k) 376 |
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.
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 38 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Boat from Port Appin then a walk around the coast to Port Ramsey. Followed road then to E coast and then back towards ferry. Accessed hill from gate a couple of hundred yards N of Rubha Mor, skirting deer fencing to the cairned top. Returned back the same way to the road and back to the ferry to Port Appin | Wayne Mac | 04/08/2023 |
| A quick bag from near the houses. | robertphillips | 22/07/2023 |
| From pier. Then walked to Port Ramsay. Nice island, must come back. | hillsman | 01/06/2023 |
| Minto | 21/03/2023 | |
| Jill Robertson | 21/03/2023 | |
| SteveG | 21/03/2023 | |
| From the jetty CP via track (NM 8934 4606). | summitsup | 06/10/2022 |
| As part of circuit round North of island | Hirta | 07/09/2022 |
| Crumblie2 | 26/08/2022 | |
| Direct from foot ferry pier at north end of island | richard69 | 29/05/2022 |
| From road. Parked at ferry. Grass track from cottages. Great views. | Campbell Singer | 11/05/2022 |
| Tricky | 27/04/2022 | |
| Rowan | 28/05/2021 | |
| Laurel | 28/05/2021 | |
| First of circuit of N Lismore TuMPs. 5 minutes from ferry jetty. Climbed it again while waiting for return ferry. | Thearlaichdubh | 20/03/2020 |
| Up from road near ferry terminal. Pasture on limestone, good views. | fasgadh | 28/09/2019 |
| interloper | 09/09/2019 | |
| beckybags | 11/04/2019 | |
| A Peckish | 10/04/2019 | |
| From the passenger ferry terminal, very quick nip up and down. OS flush bracket and 2 x OSBM bolts nearby. | jonglew | 30/10/2018 |
| On the way back to the ferry. A grassy track from the B road to the SW then descent to lamppost on pier. | NormanW | 25/07/2018 |
| Debs and Takisker. Walked up the road from the heritage centre on an anticlockwise circuit of the northern hills. | Mountain Goat | 22/06/2018 |
| softsquare | 16/05/2018 | |
| Short walk from Appin passenger ferry terminal. Gloomy skies, not quite raining! Small limestone cairn amongst limestone ribs in tussocky sheep pasture. Access from road to S of carpark. | Denise | 23/04/2018 |
| RichardM | 23/04/2018 | |
| Last of the Tumps on Isle after the Hump and SIB. Parked at Jetty and wandered around the headland gaining height to find the top. Great viewpoint on a blustery evening | nordicstar | 16/04/2018 |
| jenx | 16/04/2018 | |
| My last top on Lismore, done between ferries. | Colin Crawford | 18/09/2017 |
| jimbloomer | 20/05/2017 | |
| iaindbrown | 23/07/2016 | |
| Ferry from Port Appin to island. Path straight up from behind ferry slip. Right at fence, along and round corner, for easiest point to duck under, then up to summit. Hazy morning sunshine. Descent SW across pasture and past ancient enclosure to Park farm, then track into Port Ramsay, making for Glas Dhruim. | mainnirnamfiadh | 22/04/2016 |
| Rod M | 28/02/2016 | |
| Lindsay M | 28/02/2016 | |
| Janet M | 28/02/2016 | |
| GordonAdshead | 21/04/2014 | |
| Ken_Stewart | 15/07/2013 | |
| chalky1953 | 16/05/2012 | |
| RHW | 21/09/2009 |