Kirriereoch Hill

Kirriereoch Hill is a hill in the Range of the Awful Hand, a sub-range of the Galloway Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It lies on the border of the old counties of Ayrshire and Kirkcudbrightshire, or the modern regions of Dumfries and Galloway and South Ayrshire. A boundary wall near the summit is the highest point in South Ayrshire and Ayrshire as a whole. Kirriereoch Hill was classified as a Corbett and Marilyn but then deleted from these lists in 1984 due to not being thought to achieve the respective prominence criteria. In August 2015 the hill was relisted as a Marilyn after having been surveyed to have a 150.2 m prominence. However, since this is less than the 152.4 m required, the hill will not be re-listed as a Corbett. Its current name derives from Kirriereoch farm to its west, as hill in Scots can mean a hillside grazing ground but it was originally recorded in 1654 as "Meal Tuaichtan", a corruption of the original Gaelic name Meall an t-Suachdain. This name was kept for the loch beside the summit, Loch Twachtan (Loch an t-Suachdain).