Ben Loyal

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Ben Loyal
Ben Loyal from the north. An Caisteal is the jagged peak second from the left.
Elevation	764 m (2,483 ft)
Location	Assynt, Scotland
Prominence	609 m
Topo map	OS Landranger 10
OS grid reference	NC578488
Listing	Corbett, Marilyn
Translation	Hill of the level top (Norse)
Pronunciation	[bɛn lɔɪjəl]

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 provides good views of the Kyle, Loch Loyal to the east, and Ben Hope to the west.

It has a distinctive shape due to the four rocky peaks, the highest of which is called An Caisteal. To the north of An Caisteal is the 712 m Sgòr Chaonasaid, to the south is Bheinn Bheag (744 m), which cannot be seen in the photograph opposite, and to the west is the ridge of Sgòr a Chèirich, 644 m at its highest point. The fourth peak in the picture is the 568 m Sgòr Fionnaich.

Access is by a farm track which approaches from the north, starting at a farm called Ribigill.

Ben Loyal is composd chiefly of granite.