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Name: | Carlin's Cairn |
Hill number: | 1690 |
Height: | 807m / 2648ft |
Parent (Ma): | 1689 Corserine |
RHB Section: | 27B: Carrick and Galloway |
Donald area: | Galloway Hills |
County/UA: | Dumfries and Galloway |
Catchment: | Catchment Boundaries, Dee (Kirkcudbright), Doon |
Watershed: | Mull of Galloway to St Abb's Head, Firth of Clyde |
Class: | Simm, Donald, Subhump, Corbett Top (Tu,Sim,D,sHu,CT,DN) |
Grid ref: | NX 49698 88362 |
Summit feature: | huge cairn |
Drop: | 99m |
Col: | 708m NX497877 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 77 (1:25k) 318 |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 273 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
All Donalds & Donald Tops in the Rhinns of Kells from Forrest Lodge. 19.5 miles | Gary Heath | 20/07/2023 |
Rhinns of Kells from Forrest Lodge | Huwel | 26/08/2022 |
Parked at Forest Lodge, with Kevin Woods. 
Headed up Professor Heilberg Road, then once out of the trees onto Meikle Millyea,north to Milldown, Millfire and up to Corseine (which only has a trig and small cairn on top). From here we decided to include Carlins Cairn, then contour around the NE slope of Corserine to then cross the NE shoulder and drop back into the forest to trundling along Robert Watson and Bridgit Natvig Roads. 7hrs all in breezy at times along the tops, but good views in every direction and my first glimpse into the Galloway Forest proper. | chillyman8 | 15/07/2022 |
From Forrest Lodge for a round of Carlin's Cairn, Corserine, Millfire, Milldown, Meikle Millyea and 	Little Millyea. | rhalstead | 18/04/2022 |
yorkielad | 25/08/2021 | |
Final hill of pleasant ridge walk from Coran of Portmark. Good view point. | MichaelF | 19/05/2021 |
Rhinnns of Kells N-S traverse from Green Well of Scotland to Forrest lodge. | AndyS | 02/05/2021 |
To the old lead mines from GWoS then quick bags of Knockower and Black Craig before hitting the main ridge of Coran of Portmark, the Bows, Meaul, Carlin's Cairn, and Corserine. We then doubled-back to just shy of Meaul, contouring round to the Meaul-Cairnsgarroch beallach before heading up to the latter summit. Back to the camper van via Craighit and Garryhorn. A grand day out - 7.5hrs. | summitter | 01/05/2021 |
From Burnhead carpark, Bennan Hill and Corserine first then across to here. Dropped down Castlemaddy Gairy to pick up Torrs on the return for a 19k round. | jonglew | 21/04/2021 |
From Green Well. Knockower, then full ridge to Meikle Millyea, including Cairnsgarroch. A super ridge walk. Sunny and very clear so great views. Descent to Clenrie was pretty rough. With B and R. | jenx | 26/09/2020 |
A circuit of the southern Rhinns of Kells from Forrest Lodge: Corserine, Carlin's Cairn, Corserine again, Millfire. Milldown, Meikle Millyea true summit and summit adjacent to trig, ending with a few minor slips on the wet grass and heather of the Meikle Lump descent. The views towards the Awful Hand range and the largely unspoiled adjacent hills and lochs make this a really outstanding walk. | Nick Down1 | 19/09/2020 |
From Forest Lodge. Corserine, Carlin's cairn, Corserine again, Nillfire, Milldown, Meikle millyea. Down over Meikle lump. Awful 3 foot high grass on descent. Both boots got a soaking. | Longwojo | 06/09/2020 |
From Forest Lodge via Corserine with A&C. Some great views. | PeterD | 30/08/2020 |
Circular route from Carsphairn. Knockower, Black Craig, Coran of Portmark, Bow (+middle and SW tops), Meaul, Carlin's Cairn, return via Cairnsgarroch, descent E and a nasty entry to forestry to reach forest road, exit to climb Bardennoch Hill and path back to Carsphairn. Fine weather but lots of flies. | RobertP | 08/08/2020 |
Round of 5 above Garryhorn: Coran of Portmark, Bow, Meaul, Carlin's Cairn, Cairnsgarroch. | PGCE | 16/11/2019 |
A notable occasion, with several of us completing Donald rounds - myself, John, Richard, Peter and Liz. And thanks to Alan and Marion for tagging along. | Colin Crawford | 01/09/2019 |
Great fun to join in with the Donald completions gang. Well done everyone. | Crumblie2 | 01/09/2019 |
From Forrest Lodge car park, past Fore Bush and up by the Folk Burn on a good track bridging the river. Good path after the forest if wet in places. Great to be able to complete my Donald round along with others who were also completing rounds - Peter, John, Richard and Colin. Thanks to Marion and Alan for helping us all celebrate. | LizH | 01/09/2019 |
Completed my Donald round. A great day, with great company. It was absolutely great!! | PeterAH | 01/09/2019 |
From Forrest Lodge parking, E along forest roads and tracks to forest edge then up Polmaddy Gairy, contouring round to Carlin's Cairn, then S back to Corserine and on to Millfire, Mill down and Meikle Millyea, descending NE to forest and along roads back to Forrest Lodge parking | kdbennett | 10/07/2019 |
The 4th of 5 Donalds on anticlockwise circuit of the hills above Garryhorn, starting with Coran of Portmark & finishing on Cairnsgarroch. From Meaul, ATV track heads down to the left of the 3 lochans in col & then climbs steadily up to summit cairn. Headed back over Meaul & then E. to Cairnsgarroch. (S) | gerrybowes | 19/06/2019 |
fa, solo, rain and mist only clearing on the last top, 37km, 10hrs, from green well of scotland to ken bridge by new galloway, via garryhorn and all the tops from coran of postmark, bow and tops, meaul, carlins cairn, corserine, milkier, milldown, meikle millyea, west top, back to meikle, meikle lump, track through forestry to larger then minor roads, SUW, etc to new galloway and ken bridge | rum doodle | 05/06/2019 |
9th and penultimate hill of 10 today on a North to Mid-ridge Rhinns traverse, climbing Cullendoch, Craigencolon, Black Craig, Knockower, Coran of Portmark, Bow and its x Donald tops, Cairnsgarroch and Meaul with straightforward steady climb, reaching the Cairn where I spied my first people of the day on Corserine. I found a red camera case (empty) with plasters in it and removed it before continuing to my final top, the mighty Corserine... | Dazingdale | 20/04/2019 |
Damp miizzle... circuit highpoint from Garryhorn | N.Morters | 06/08/2018 |
From Forrest Lodge by tracks and excellent path to Corserine then out and back to Carlin's Cairn. Steady walk mainly on atv tracks over Millfire and Milldown to Meikle Millyea. Followed wall down but took path before turn (one interesting bit) down to new track at forest edge and back to car park. | SS | 05/08/2018 |
From green well of scotland | cjo | 02/06/2018 |
Continuation of walk over Corserine by dropping down N and up to huge summit cairn of CC. Reversed direction to return to C's trig pillar. Brilliant sunshine by this point, pleasantly cooled by light S winds. The first visit to CC was on a solo outing on 13/05/2015, aproaching from and later returning to Meaul. Third visit was on KHWC walk 02/04/2022 was a repeat of second, again in great weather. | jacobus | 23/05/2018 |
Round of 4 Donalds anticlockwise from Garryhorn (see coran of Portmark for details) | AndrewFinnimore | 10/04/2018 |
A long walk from Meaul but worth it! Walked back, traversing under Meaul and up to Cairnsgarroch. | Dangerous Dave | 08/08/2017 |
Very dry, warm. Round included Corserine, Carlin's cairn, Millfire, Milldown and Meikle Millyea from Forrest Lodge car park. | Roblex | 10/05/2017 |
Afternoon walk with George W. Windy, sunny, a bit hazy and bone dry. Perfect walking conditions. 1st Donald of the day. | Play2End | 03/05/2017 |
Views at last on this Misty ridge walk. | nickywood1 | 12/03/2017 |
Circuit from Green Well of Scotland. | Grinner | 26/11/2016 |
Weather clag to East. | MountainMac | 21/10/2016 |
Daltallochan, Coran, Carlin's | Flatfield | 07/09/2016 |
Continuation of walk from Meaul. Continued on ATV track south to bealach and up north ridge to summit. Continued to Corserine. Solo. | Man of Kernow1 | 03/06/2016 |
From Green Well. Herd of 50 wild goats on top, watching me eat my sandwiches. | ngthack | 15/10/2015 |
From Meaul on atv/ridge to large cairn: lunched then donned rain jacket as cloud brought in light rain. Reversed route back to Meaul. | trienbrae | 13/05/2015 |
Parked at Forrest Lodge walked up by McAdams Burn climbing Meikle Lump bagging Meikle Millyea, Milldown, Millfire, Corserine and Carlins Cairn returning to Corserine and down to the forest via the main path by Folk Burn. Great walk in this forgotten corner of Scotland. | DanTrig | 22/04/2015 |
Solo | Vin | 20/04/2015 |
round of 5 new donalds. | robertphillips | 17/07/2014 |
See Corserine. | dickscroop | 09/06/2014 |
Two-day backpack from Loch Doon: Coran of Portmark - Corserine - Backhill of Bush - Craignaw - Mullwharchar - Loch Enoch (camped near outflow) - Merrick - Shalloch on Minnoch - Forest Drive | davidpettit84 | 03/05/2014 |
On a three day backpack circuit from Glen Trool | alistairpooler | 19/04/2014 |
self | davidsbatty | 20/02/2013 |
Overcast, cool, light wind and good views. | iangalbraith | 20/05/2012 |
KeithByTheC | 05/05/2012 | |
CK | SheilaS | 01/01/2012 |
2nd hill of day. 
Dropped N along ridge from Corserine to climb up to top. | derekblackburn | 12/06/2011 |
From Meaul. Downhill on vehicle tracks by 2 or 3 lochans, then gentle trudge for over a mile to the massive cairn 12.55. Back to the col and 2/3rds way up Meaul to the right over easy ground to broken wall and fence down to a col and final hill of the day - Cairnsgarroch. 14.45. | arranc | 27/04/2011 |