Loading...
Name: | Cairn Hill |
Hill number: | 13390 |
Height: | 270m / 886ft |
Parent (Ma): | 1686 Corse Hill |
RHB Section: | 27A: Ayr to the River Clyde |
County/UA: | East Renfrewshire |
Catchment: | Irvine & Garnock |
Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
Grid ref: | NS 48507 51035 |
Summit feature: | no feature |
Drop: | 36m |
Col: | 234m NS485514 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 64 (1:25k) 334 |
Survey: | obvious summit |
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 34 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
Almost a drive by so close to the lane | Andrew Simmons | 14/02/2024 |
Along the road from Byreside. A Brucie Bonus from the road that passes very close to the top, Spent rest of the day chasing grid squares on the bike. | fasgadh | 05/11/2023 |
Parked near gate at trees to south of hill. Five minutes to the top. Spoke to farmer. Views across to Ben Lomond and Ailsa Craig. Third hill of the day. | colazione | 25/12/2021 |
Same route as most others. | lordtonult | 07/09/2021 |
Parked in field gateway for about 5 minutes up and down. Ailsa Craig in view. Easiest hill of 15 in the day. | Campbell Singer | 26/09/2020 |
Parked minor road to East; through gate, on pasture to Top. Mist obscuring views to East. With the F.C. | The Captain | 19/08/2020 |
Very quick ascent up a grassy slope from high point on road. | sclater | 07/07/2020 |
On a circuit of four tumps: probably the nicest of today's hills. | Grinner | 27/06/2020 |
Parked at the gate just south of the summit. Very short walk up over grass to the summit. | LizH | 05/06/2020 |
4th tump of 10 on a 26.6km circuit from Harelaw, climbing Knockenae, Dareduff hill and James's Hill, descending Ese to track and following this to minor lane, heading Sw past White Loch to bend in road, at disused tip then heading Sse to edge of woodland and upto the top, recording 271m @ NS 48506 51034 on a stone. Continuation to Floak Hill... | Dazingdale | 28/09/2019 |
Parked in large entrance track to field gateway. Didn't time it, but probably 5 mins all in. | Minto | 10/07/2019 |
Ticked | hillsman | 28/04/2019 |
Round from Greenhags Dump | quadbarrel | 11/11/2018 |
Park by upper gate for around 7 minutes. Very windy. | Thearlaichdubh | 24/12/2017 |
From s, gate, pasture summit | RHW | 19/11/2016 |
parked at gate just below hill. | robertphillips | 30/06/2015 |
Newton Mearns-Mearns Law-Byreside Hill-Cairn Hill-Floak Hill-Ballageich Hill(rpt)-Eaglesham | campagvelocet | 06/01/2015 |
Parked at gate. Pasture | chrisbien | 23/12/2013 |
Just about space to park without blocking gate near trees marked to south on 1:50k. Pleasant little rise, if you like moorland views. | agentmancuso | 02/11/2013 |
Robin56 | 14/10/2023 | |
Chris Mac | 10/09/2023 | |
stevent0809 | 15/09/2021 | |
bjewing | 26/03/2021 | |
hillhunter | 24/10/2020 | |
Sunhat | 19/08/2020 | |
PeterAH | 05/06/2020 | |
cmac | 24/05/2020 | |
Martin R | 26/03/2018 | |
ajwxyzt | 24/02/2018 | |
49pp | 04/11/2017 | |
Adrian | 19/08/2017 | |
GaryJones | 16/04/2016 | |
chalky1953 | 23/05/2015 | |
Colin Crawford | 17/11/2014 |