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| Name: | Cnoc Mor |
| Hill number: | 1109 |
| Height: | 269m / 883ft |
| RHB Section: | 15B: Loch Vaich to Moray Firth |
| County/UA: | Highland |
| Catchment: | Cromarty |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Tump (200-299m), Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,2,Y) |
| Grid ref: | NH 49028 56945 |
| Summit feature: | no feature: ground by stile |
| Drop: | 161m |
| Col: | 108.1m NH 4751 5721  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 26 (1:25k) 437S |
| Observations: | trig point 10m E at NH 49039 56947 is 0.4m lower; mound in trees 10m WNW is higher but comprises brushwood covered in vegetation |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 302 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Good path along the ridge from Knock Farril car park. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 01/09/2023 |
| A brilliant wee hill. Three mile circular route from the free forestry car park. | KevPalmer | 08/07/2023 |
| From car park at Blackmuir wood | colazione | 20/06/2023 |
| Parked in the town centre and took the path up to the maze (worth a visit) and bealach before following the path along the fence line up the Cats Back to the trig point. More direct descent back to the maze. Weather overcast. With Gillian | richard69 | 22/04/2023 |
| Room for 1 car on N side of track E of Jamestown at approx 482566. | duchally | 02/11/2022 |
| With L. From ridge carpark - Cnoc Mor first then Knock Farril. Down to Dingwall for lunch and football afterwards. | Janet M | 30/10/2022 |
| Reminded me of Black Down. | Pete R | 09/09/2022 |
| From the car park near Knock Farril along the Cats back ridge | PeterD | 11/06/2022 |
| Circuit from forestry car park up tp Cnoc Mor, along Cats Back to Knock Farril, returning via Touchstone Maze. Lovely wee walk. | Fife Walking | 08/06/2022 |
| Lovely walk from the house we stayed at in Strathpeffer. I was a bit wary of the very steep slope at the top. Saw a red squirrel while I waited for Yeltzbagger to check if I could get to the top. Wonderful woodland and interesting vitrified fort. | Stevie n Tay | 20/05/2022 |
| Accessed from the west side. Planned to park at road end near Beallachnagore, but all I found was a closed gate and barking dog. Nowhere to park considerately. Driving back I passed 2 walkers who looked like they were here for the same reason as me, however there response of 'Why do you need to know that', did not sound too promising. To my surprise he offered to let me park on his drive after I declined his suggestion to park in front of the gate providing access to field. He also told me to path on bend before Beallachnagore which turned out to be a good route all the way to the summit traversing around the south and approaching it from the east. High point looks to be over stile in wood west of trig pillar. Descended to the SW down a steeper, shorter but equally well defined path to bend in road before Beallachnagore. Recommend parking in Jamestown. | mntainman | 18/09/2021 |
| Cnoc Mor and Knock Farril from the small parking area 100 yards SW of the ridge CP. The resulting Cat's there-and-back ridge walk was delightful. | Nick Down1 | 01/09/2021 |
| Cnoc Mor and Knock Farril from Blackmuir Wood car park in Strathpeffer. | vuirich | 23/05/2021 |
| Climbed from the Forestry Commission car park in Strathpeffer | Simon Winton | 25/01/2020 |
| From Strathpeffer town center via stone circle. Not much of a view from the top as trees have grown. | mindlessflogger | 18/01/2020 |
| 2 of 2: From the Blackmuir CP. | ChrisR | 10/09/2019 |
| With a run along the Cats back | highlandrock | 01/09/2019 |
| Enjoyable short walk from road to East after Mountain bike from Dingwall | trimarc2 | 28/05/2019 |
| Pleasant walk up from Blackmuir Forest Walk car park with Ikuko. Super clear day with great views, though much obscured by trees. | GWR Chris | 14/05/2019 |
| Rain at first then sunny. From walker’s car park. Unpleasant digression through forestry on way back. | Rounsfell | 09/09/2018 |
| run from Strathpeffer | CraigW | 30/08/2018 |
| Lovely wee hill. Good shelter by trees on this hot day. | tallblond | 26/07/2018 |
| With Luna on the way to the airport to get Rosaidh | BigNick | 10/06/2018 |
| Cnoc Mor & Knock Farril from Blackmuir Wood car park in Strathpeffer. On own. | MorecambeMonkey | 20/05/2018 |
| From car park at west end of Strathpeffer. Forestry tracks then up along Cat's Back and down through woods. Very enjoyable. | the pigguy | 11/05/2018 |
| With Bev, Steve and Dave. Magnificent views most of the way. | Barbara Singer | 09/05/2018 |
| Parked at Knockfarrell Vitrified Fort Car park - Explored fort dropped off far end (past Scots Pines) and circled to Knockfarrell village - then ridge path to hill summit and trig. Returned via cats back. Pretty hill with a wonderful views. Visited Strathpieffer (old victorian spa town well that is also well worth a visit) at foot of hill after to see the Eagle Pictish stone. | briandavies | 20/04/2018 |
| From Knockfarrel. | Peterb | 20/02/2018 |
| From Knockfarrel CP. Freezing, calm, sunny and great views. | iangalbraith | 05/02/2018 |
| Lovely deep snow. Clear blue sky. | summitter | 20/01/2018 |
| Last hill of the day, from the big and very icy Knockfarrel car park. An excellent stroll in the snow, with fine views all round. A bit of dodging, limbo dancing and crawling under wind throw just in case you weren't sure it was a proper Marilyn. | Gill | 15/12/2017 |
| Sunny morning, hill 2 for the day. Parked at the forest car park GR 478574. Track past the Cnocmor lodges where on owner has too much time and too much wood to fashion fun large wood sculptures. At where track bends NE a small gravel pit and faint path easily missed on the left. Followed path to fence below summit and turned right to trigpoint. Fine view to Wyvis and Strathconon. | N.Morters | 22/10/2016 |
| From Blackmuir CP. Then along the ridge to Knock Farril CP. before doubling back to Blackmuir. With Karen. | ChrisR | 08/08/2016 |
| With The Cat's Back | DampandDusty | 02/07/2016 |
| With Jenx from end road parking by Lochview house above Loch Ussie. Asked and given permission. A soggy path to col then up the forest fence path negotiating fallen trees. Top looks like it is trig not stile. Woods all being cleared / cut out. | nordicstar | 05/02/2016 |
| A pretty hill but a bit spoilt by the ongoing forestry works. | jenx | 05/02/2016 |
| From Knock Farril carpark, Knock Farril and Cnoc Mor. | rhalstead | 04/07/2015 |
| From Knockfarrel car park out and back. Lots of closed paths due to felling on Strahpeffer flank. | SS | 24/06/2015 |
| From Knockfarrel, with IS. | amswanston | 29/05/2015 |
| With AS. | iks | 29/05/2015 |
| from the knockfarrel cp. | robertphillips | 06/04/2015 |
| From Knock Farril car park | PeteN | 28/03/2015 |
| Parked in the parking area in Knockfarrel. A very pleasant ridge walk taking around 75 minutes with Meds. | bolton | 11/02/2015 |
| From car park at Knockfarrel. 8/8 cloud cover, mod vis. With PM. | CJM | 11/02/2015 |
| Solo. From Conon Bridge Railway Station. Walked to Knock Farril and then followed path SW towards Cnoc Mòr. Initially good but then difficult to follow due to fallen tree branches. Path going round to S of summit so struck up hillside to trig point. Highest point probably mound in forest near stile. Found a newly cleared path, not shown on my 1:50,000 map, going steeply down western slopes. This took me to Jamiestown. Bus to Conon Bridge for train. | pwbellarby | 27/01/2015 |
| Hill awash with purple heather. Grabbed while doing the trig. | BigJ | 02/09/2014 |
| Tried shorter route starting SE of summit at 498562. It was no quicker and was considerably less comfortable. | Topographer57 | 24/08/2014 |
| A great wee hill with GHC. From the view point car park. Just a bit longer than I wanted it to be though. | Play2End | 07/07/2014 |
| Visited it while recoding trigs, climb up from Rd at 496569 | Nozzer | 19/05/2014 |
| Solo trip | Invicta14 | 12/05/2014 |