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| Name: | Ironside Hill |
| Hill number: | 12855 |
| Height: | 354m / 1161ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 1665 Craigowl Hill |
| RHB Section: | 26A: Central Scotland from Dumbarton to Montrose |
| County/UA: | Angus |
| Catchment: | Tay |
| Class: | Tump (300-399m) (Tu,3) |
| Grid ref: | NO 39950 41108 |
| Summit feature: | no feature: ground by fence |
| Drop: | 30m |
| Col: | 324m NO397408  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 54 (1:25k) 380E |
| Observations: | flat summit area |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 36 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Ironside, Gallow, Laidloon loop. | Waterlog | 15/01/2024 |
| From Lumley Den on a very misty day. Together with Gallow Hill. On good farmer's track through the heather. | Crumblie2 | 08/05/2023 |
| With Gallow Hill from layby | hillsman | 21/04/2023 |
| Quick from the lay by. Good track. Showers. | Play2End | 08/01/2023 |
| Over from Gallow Hill then dropped to the car at the lay-by to the S of the road hp. | Adrian | 26/06/2022 |
| Ironside & Gallow Hills from Lumley Den. | summitter | 12/06/2022 |
| From the hp on the A road to the NE, an old gate gives access to an ATV track cleared of heather which passes within 20m of the top. And the cleared track leads on to Gallow Hill. | NormanW | 03/05/2022 |
| Circuit from Balkello car park. | thekirkie pirate | 02/03/2022 |
| Finlarg Hill, Hayston Hill, Ironside Hill & Gallow Hioll from W side Lumley Den. Track from near lay-by through cut heather to near the summit. | duchally | 11/02/2022 |
| ironside hill and gallow hill from the layby near hp of the road. | robertphillips | 16/12/2019 |
| Weather fair. | MountainMac | 03/12/2018 |
| A circuit from Coldstream. Track and direct hillside to Craigowl (passing what could have been two rings of a hill fort?), outfklanking the heather where possible to the summit and cairn on Gallow Hill, then by increasingly tenuous tracks through the heather to Ironside Hill and back via the track descending from the nearby mast and a right turn through the farm at Balcalk. | Nick Down1 | 11/08/2018 |
| P layby - thick heather and snow occ paths to Ironside. No paths to Gallow but some back to car. Up the other side through steep and thick heather to field and Finlarg and onto Hayston. Barbed wire fence along field boundaries with parallel electric fence but walked back along gap. | chrisbien | 14/01/2017 |
| Round of Ironside, Gallow and searching for animal tracks through the long purple heather. Probably the best line is to stay close to fences. | Topographer57 | 14/08/2016 |
| Heather horror, especially on ascent from Lumley Den | Colin Crawford | 30/07/2015 |
| With alda. 21 of 32. | Lindsay M | 30/05/2015 |
| Rubbishy heather from Gallow Hill then a tiny overgrown path up from col alongside fence. Descent to Lumley Den not much better. Another disappointing hill. 21 of 32. | alda | 30/05/2015 |
| From layby just N of road summit. With Gallow Hill | Minto | 05/07/2014 |
| govanah | 24/12/2022 | |
| AFD90 | 13/04/2022 | |
| thelonious | 04/01/2022 | |
| SteveeMac | 01/04/2021 | |
| Tony S | 03/12/2020 | |
| richtea5040 | 19/11/2020 | |
| tsmart | 18/03/2020 | |
| hill walker | 23/02/2020 | |
| hillhunter | 13/03/2019 | |
| Tricky | 28/12/2017 | |
| Oik | 25/03/2017 | |
| benarmine | 25/11/2016 | |
| IainT | 08/08/2016 | |
| Oik | 30/04/2016 | |
| chalky1953 | 17/03/2014 | |
| clashcityrocker | 08/10/2012 | |
| Gonk | 01/06/1958 | |
| susieblue | blank |