Walk: Corrimony Falls – beyond the cairn

📌 Cannich, Highland
★★★★

Upstream from the popular historic site of Corrimony Chambered Cairn, signposts point the way into the vast Corrimony Nature Reserve. As well as Scottish crossbills, black grouse and golden eagles, this little-visited RSPB reserve also boasts a very impressive waterfall on its more accessible eastern fringe. Access is through the grounds of Corrimony Estate; a mansion house was once the grand centrepiece, but tree-lined avenues and faint earthworks are the only surviving clues. Look out for Mony’s Stone on the return route, which is said to mark the burial place of a Viking raider, son of one of the kings of Denmark – though the stone may originally have been erected much nearer to the waterfall.

📷 Chronological photo guide

🌍 Location

📌 Start / finish at Corrimony Chambered Cairn car park, minor road 3 mi east of Cannich

🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NH 385303

🛰️ GPS coordinates: 57.334666,-4.685996

🚌 Infrequent bus stops on A831 at Corrimony turnoff (1 mi)

🚗 Car park

📝 Key info

▶ 5 km / 3 mi | ▲ 120 m | ⌛ 1.5 hr

Features: ✞ Corrimony Chambered Cairn ★★★; 🌊 Corrimony Falls ★★★; ✞ Mony’s Stone

⬤ Moderate | Mixture of good tracks and slightly overgrown, narrow paths. Steep drops around the falls, and great care needs to be taken to descend to river level here.

➡️ Out-and-back walk with slight variation on return: start – Corrimony Chambered Cairn – cross bridge over River Enrick at 🧭 NH 376301 – path along River Enrick – rejoin track – path on left to Corrimony Falls – return to track – Mony’s Stone by track – rejoin outward route – start

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🥾 On our last visit

Wildlife: Grey herons, jackdaws, wrens, dragonflies & butterflies.

Weather: Long sunny spells, temperature in high teens.

July 2020

Corrimony Falls ★★★