List of Murdo mountains in Scotland

Murdo
Carn na Criche on the Braeriach Plateau, the highest Murdo that is not classed as a Munro
Highest point
Elevation	over 3,000 ft (914 m)
Prominence	over 30 m (98 ft)
Geography
Location	442 Scotland

This is a list of Murdo mountains in Scotland by height. Murdos are defined as Scottish mountains over 3,000 feet (914.4 m) in height, with a prominence over 30 metres (98 ft),^[1] a mix of imperial and metric thresholds.^[2]

British Isles cartographer Alan Dawson, first compiled the list of Murdos in 1995 to provide an objective and quantitative alternative to the more qualitative Scottish Mountaineering Club ("SMC") definition of a Munro.^{[lower-alpha 1][3]} Unlike all other Scottish mountain and hill classifications, the SMC does not maintain an official list of Murdos.^[4] However, all Murdos are either SMC Munros or SMC Munro Tops.^[1] Dawson's threshold was in line with the 1994 UIAA declaration that an "independent peak" had to have a prominence of over 30 metres (98 ft).^[5]

As of October 2018, there were 442 Murdos identified in Scotland.^[6] Most definitions of mountains in the British Isles consider peaks with a prominence between 30–150 metres (98–492 ft) as being "tops", and not mountains. 203 of the 442 Murdos exceed this 150 metres (492 ft) prominence threshold, and thus are marilyns.^[6] 54 of the 442 Murdos exceed the P600 prominence threshold of 600 metres (1,969 ft) to be a "major" mountain.^[6]

When Dawson created the list of Murdos he stated that "all Munros are Murdos", and listed Maoile Lunndaidh, a Munro, with a prominence over 400 metres (1,312 ft).^[2] Surveys in 2014, showed that Maoile Lunndaidh was lower than Creag Toll a' Choin,^[7] and that its actual prominence was just under 11 metres (36 ft); the main databases of Murdos (e.g. the DoBIH), no longer list Maoile Lunndaidh as a Murdo, and thus not all Munros are Murdos.^{[8][lower-alpha 2]}

Murdo mountains by height

The list below was downloaded from the Database of British and Irish Hills ("DoBIH") as at October 2018.^{[10][lower-alpha 3]} Note that topological prominence, unlike topological elevation, is far more complex to measure and requires a survey of the entire contours of a peak, rather than a single point of height.^[13] These tables are therefore subject to being revised over time, and should not be amended or updated unless the entire DoBIH data is re-downloaded again. The DoBIH classification marks Munros ("M") and Munro Tops ("MT").

Bibliography

• Alan Dawson (1995). The Murdos (TACit Tables). TACit Press. ISBN 978-0952268031.

DoBIH codes

The DoBIH uses the following codes for the various classifications of mountains and hills in the British Isles, which many of the above peaks also fall into:^[14]

Ma Marilyn
Hu Hump
Sim Simm
5 Dodd
M Munro
MT Munro Top
F Furth
C Corbett
G Graham
D Donald
DT Donald Top
Hew Hewitt
N Nuttall
Dew Dewey
DDew Donald Dewey
HF Highland Five
4 400-499m Tump
3 300-399m Tump (GB)
2 200-299m Tump (GB)
1 100-199m Tump (GB)
0 0-99m Tump (GB)
W Wainwright
WO Wainwright Outlying Fell
B Birkett
Sy Synge
Fel Fellranger
CoH County Top – Historic (pre-1974)
CoA County Top – Administrative (1974 to mid-1990s)
CoU County Top – Current County or Unitary Authority
CoL County Top – Current London Borough
SIB Significant Island of Britain
Dil Dillon
A Arderin
VL Vandeleur-Lynam
MDew Myrddyn Dewey
O Other list
Un unclassified

prefixes:
s sub
x deleted

suffixes:
= twin

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Munros.

• List of mountains of the British Isles by height
• List of mountains of the British Isles by prominence
• Lists of mountains and hills in the British Isles
• Lists of mountains in Ireland
• List of Munro mountains in Scotland
• List of Corbett mountains in Scotland
• List of Graham mountains in Scotland
• List of Donald mountains in Scotland
• List of Furth mountains in the British Isles
• List of P600 mountains in the British Isles
• List of Marilyns in the British Isles

Notes

Reference

External links

• The Database of British and Irish Hills (DoBIH), the largest database of British Isles mountains
• Hill Bagging UK & Ireland, the searchable interface for the DoBIH
• The Relative Hills of Britain, a website dedicated to mountain and hill classification