Munros (Scotland)
The Munros are mountains in Scotland above 3,000 ft. They are listed in Munros Tables which were originally produced by Sir Hugh Munro for the Scottish Mountaineering Club, who still maintain and publish the Tables. A version of Munro's Tables ordered by height is available on Wikipedia. Munro's Tables also include Munro Tops which are mountains in Scotland over 3,000 ft that are considered as subsidiary peaks to the Munros, as they are either too close to the main peak or there is an insufficient drop between them and the main peak. We will, at this stage, only be virtual peak bagging the Munros. We will split the Munros into two groups: the Scottish 4000s, of which there are only 9, and the Scottish 3000s, of which there are 273. We will bag the Scottish 4000s first and then the Scottish 3000s and it may be a long time before we compleat them!
Click on the appropriate group that interests you below:
Please note that interpretation of the names of the Scottish 3000s and links to view the mountains and for further information about them is contained in a spreadsheet which also contains the same information for the Scottish 4000s. This spreadsheet can be downloaded or viewed from the Scottish 3000s page whose link is given avove.
For the Munros, we will not follow the same south to north order as we have for England and Wales, as there are so many Munros that it will be cumbersome and difficult to group them and hard to index them in this order. Instead, we will visit them in order of height.
Google Maps have filmed some walking routes on Ben Nevis for Street View. Details of how to do virtual walks on Ben Nevis and other peaks can be found on Virtual Hill Walking.
We would like to place on record our thanks to:
Bill Patterson, Newsletter Editor of the Scottish Place-name Society, who has been kind enough to check the Scottish Gaelic syntax and grammar and its interpretations in the entries for the Scottish 4000s.
Dr Peter Drummond, a previous Convener and currently Treasurer of the Scottish Place-name Society and a renowned expert in Scottish place-names, for his comments and advice on the Scottish 4000s. His book, Scottish Hill Names: Their Origin and Meaning, published by the Scottish Mountaineering Trust in 2007, is a definitive guide to this subject and has been an invaluable source of information in compiling the entries for the Scottish 4000s and 3000s.
The above book has also been used extensively in researching the names of the Scottish 3000s as well as other sources such as the online Gaelic dictionaries referenced by Lexilogos and the online multilingual dictionary Wiktionary for the etymology of words.
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