Ben Loyal
Ben Loyal is an isolated mountain of 764 m in Sutherland, the northwestern tip of the Scottish Highlands. It is a Corbett located south of the Kyle of Tongue and offers good views of the Kyle, Loch Loyal to the east, and Ben Hope to the west.Photo: Terry Jacombs, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,507 feet
- Description: mountain in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “An Caisteal”, “Beinn Laghail”, and “Ben Laoghal”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sgòr Chaonasaid and Loch an Dìthreibh.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Braetongue and Tongue.
Braetongue
Hamlet
Braetongue is an area in northern Sutherland just north of the town of Tongue. Runrig mentions the "hills about Brae Tongue" in the song The Summer Walkers. Braetongue is situated 5 miles north of Ben Loyal.
Tongue
Village
Photo: Florian Fuchs, CC BY 3.0.
Tongue is a coastal village in northwest Highland, Scotland, in the western part of the former county of Sutherland. It lies on the east shore above the base of the Kyle of Tongue and north of the mountains Ben Hope and Ben Loyal on the A836. Tongue is situated 5 miles north of Ben Loyal.
Ben Loyal
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.40495° or 58° 24′ 18″ northLongitude
-4.4353° or 4° 26′ 7″ westElevation
2,507 feet (764 metres)Open location code
9CCQCH37+XVOpenStreetMap ID
node 181305314OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Welsh—“Ben Loyal” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Beinn Laghail”
- Cebuano: “An Caisteal - Ben Loyal”
- Cornish: “Beinn Laghail”
- Dutch: “Ben Loyal”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بين لويال”
- German: “Ben Loyal”
- Irish: “An Caisteal”
- Irish: “Beinn Laghail”
- Irish: “Beinn Laoghail”
- Italian: “Ben Loyal”
- Ladin: “Ben Loyal”
- Manx: “Beinn Laghail”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ben Loyal”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Caisteal”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Beinn Laghail”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Beinn Laoghail”
- Swedish: “An Caisteal - Ben Loyal”
- Welsh: “Beinn Laghail”
- Welsh: “Ben Loyal - An Caisteal”
- “An Caisteal”
- “Beinn Laghail”
- “Beinn Laghail (Ben Loyal)”
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