Walk: The old Ord of Lairg

📌 Lairg, Highland
★★★

The squat hill known as The Ord bulges up southwest of Lairg. Adorned with a radio tower, views across Loch Shin from the exposed summit are much better than you would expect from a hill with such a puny top height. Not only that, but its slopes are covered in traces of ancient occupation, including chambered cairns, hut circles and fire pits (some more obvious than others).

📷 Chronological photo guide

🌍 Location

📌 Start / finish at Ferrycroft Visitor Centre, 0.5 mi west of Lairg village centre

🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NC 579061

🛰️ GPS coordinates: 58.021400,-4.406522

🚌 Buses stop on A836 at southerly A839 junction

🚗 Car park

📝 Key info

▶ 3 km / 2 mi | ▲ 80 m | ⌛ 1 hr

Features: 🏠 Ferrycroft Visitor Centre; △ The Ord (159 m); ✞ chambered cairns

⬤ Easy | Clear paths – sometimes narrow – and tracks with some ascent.

➡️ Anticlockwise lollipop circuit: start & visitor centre – The Ord & chambered cairns from the northeast – descend to southeast – rejoin outward route – start

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🥾 On our last visit

Wildlife: Crows, stonechats.

Weather: Quite a lot of sunshine, rain shower at the end, temperature in low teens.

July 2020