TP2563 - Creag Mhor

Grid reference :	NR 92960 73484
Type :	Pillar
Condition :	Good
Flush Bracket Number :	S5144
Current use :	none
Historic use :	Secondary
Waypoint :	TP2563
County :	Strathclyde Region
Nearest town :	ROTHESAY

Nearby trigpoints, placenames  There are 13 photos for this trigpoint (view album). This trigpoint: Is ranked joint 878th with 19 other trigs (more). Has a mean score of 7.14/10 (from 7 logged visits) Was First logged: 10th Sep 2009 Was Last logged: 5th May 2012 Of the 7 logged visits, 4 recorded a location and of these.... All were within 7m The average error was 5m The closest was 1m	[Zoom In/Out] [Hide Labels] [Hide Caches]
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Logged Visits:

5th May 2012  18:01  by edfielden

Gridref: NR 92959 73485   FB Number: S5144  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Parked in track entrance at NR 9360 7436 and guess who was there? andyc had already headed up the hill but his dad was at the bottom and very kindly made me a cuppa. andyc himself came down the hill a couple of minutes later and explained the lie of the land towards the top. After a good cup of tea I set out up the track to the NW before cutting the corner to the SW across a piece of open deforested land and onto the track leading SSE. Continuing up the hill I rounded the corner and after another 400m or so I came across Alan and George who had also been on the Inchmarnock trip earlier in the day and who were descending from the summit. I headed W off the track up a shallow deforested valley just before the track started to descend again. Instead of continuing up the gentle valley I climbed a hillock too far to the south of the best route. I had to round this and head north again to avoid a steep wooded gully before turning west again across difficult deforested terrain and then turning SSW. The summit of Creag Mhor is generally heathery and tumpy, and it was a little hard going. However I reached the pillar just after 6pm with again very good views all round in the bright late afternoon sunshine. Pillar has metal cap with indented letters; FB faces N; S sighthole open, N sighthole plugged, others not properly observed. I descended across the difficult terrain again and headed back to Tighnabruaich for well-deserved beer and food!

Decorated stone on forest track With Loch Melldalloch behind ©edfielden
S5144 - Pillar Looking SW ©edfielden
S5144 - Top With view to S towards Arran ©edfielden
S5144 - Flush bracket ©edfielden
S5144 - Pillar Looking NE ©edfielden
S5144 - Trig pose! Looking S ©edfielden
S5144 - View NNW Towards Lochgilphead and Mull ©edfielden

5th May 2012  16:45  by andyc

FB Number: S5144  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

I bet this hill has never had a busier day in its life. Climbed up along forest track then headed up newly felled area from high point of track. Several tussocks vying for highest point but only 1 trig. On descent met Alan and George who were More interested in its Hump status then found my dad at the bottom busy making Ed a cup of tea before he started his ascent. All this on a hill with only 5 trig ascents and a single entry on Hill Bagging!

7th Nov 2011  15:50  by Chalky

FB Number: S5144  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Spider retains OS cap with indented lettering.

9th Jul 2011  14:13  by coinea

Gridref: NR 92966 73484   FB Number: S5144  Condition: Good  Score: 9/10

9th Jul 2011  14:12  by Clochandighter

Gridref: NR 92966 73479   FB Number: S5144  Condition: Good  Score: 9/10

HISTORY: Pillar completed 4th July 1949 costing £26.2s.10d. Computed as secondary triangulation station NS29/20 within the Greenock block during 1952. Levelled for height also in 1952. Last maintained by the OS in July 1968. SITE VISIT: Parked by wide entrance to forest track, west side of B8000 at NR936743. Followed forest track to high point at NR934737, then headed 300m WNW to bealach and 400m SSW to summit. Pillar in good condition. Spider retains original OS centre cap with shallow engraved letters. Flush bracket faces 11° east of north. West and south sight holes open, others plugged. Full 360° panoramic view.

S5144 - Creag Mhor & GRP
S5144 - Creag Mhor pillar & FB

26th Sep 2009  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: S5144  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

vgc, metal cap, shallow letters. Heathery hill, fairly tough once off the forest road (which I left at 933735 approx. In cloud, no view. From NE.

10th Sep 2009  15:18  by Aye Jimmy

Gridref: NR 92964 73481   FB Number: S5144  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Followed a forest track from the NE most of the way, then 500m of rough going to trig. TP was unlike its three neighbours seen that day: FB number of a different order, indented lettering (not raised) and concrete full of coarse pebbles, not smooth.

Creag Mhor Approaching the trig.
Creag Mhor Pillar. Two sight holes open.
Creag Mhor Flush bracket and millipede.
Creag Mhor OS cap and location.