English / Map Form: Mullach nan Coirean
Gaelic Form: Sgùrr a’ Chaorainn
Post Town: FORT WILLIAM
Postcode area: PH33
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Mullach nan Coirean
Gaelic Form: Sgùrr a’ Chaorainn
Sources
Skur Cherrin 1747-55 Roy [map not detailed enough here to show if this is Mullach nan Coirean or Meall a’ Chaorainn
Maolath Sgur churin 1832 Thomson [‘Maolath’ and ‘Sgur churin’ are separated and could potentially be separate features’ ]
“Sgùrr-a’ -Chaorainn an Lochabar”. Rev. J. MacDougall, Folk Tales and Fairy Lore in Gaelic and English, 1910, 295 [the story says this is by Blàr a’ Chaorainn]
“No one hereabouts knows the name Mullach nan Coirean and it is always called Sgurr a’ Chaorruinn. The name fits Mullach nan Coirean to a T. When ascending and when at the top I suspected and still suspect that the sgurr on the other side of Allt Coire a’ Mhuillin is the real top. It certainly looks higher and did so from down below too. Can it be the top and the real Sgurr a’ Chaorruinn; and Mullach nan Coirean simply a central top without a name?”: Ronald burn diary
Additional Information
Munro M236, 939m
Blàr and Meall a’ Chaorainn are nearby.
Drummond says this ‘mullach’ would be an exception topographically.