Frequently asked questions

  • SNH Camera Trap Project: Grandtully Primary June 2017
  • Beaver scouts examining the pondlife
  • Volunteers coffee break
  • Melancholy thistle (Cirsium heterophylla)
  • Improving access
  • A survey on Dùn Coillich found over 40 archaeological sites
  • Camera Trap
  • Fencing Dùn Coillich
  • Planting trees
  • Route marking: Dùn Coillich
  • Fencing volunteers
  • Rural Skills Trainees learning how to do dry stane dyking
  • Route marking: Dùn Coillich
  • Butterfly Surveying
  • Rural Skills Training Fence Maintenance
  • Grandtully Primary School and the SNH camera trap project
  • Grandtully Primary School and the SNH camera trap project
  • Dyke building Sep 2017
  • Fence wire transport on the contraption Dùn Coillich
  • Sandra Winter working on Trish's enclosure in 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Sundew Dùn Coillich
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Melancholy thistle (Cirsium heterophylla)
  • Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria)
  • Breadalbane Rural Skills Pupils
  • Food for Beaver Scouts after their hard work at Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Course Outdoor First Aid Training
  • Learning about nature
  • Working with schools
  • Glengoulandie dam: Dùn Coillich
  • Learning about nature
  • Lichen diversity
  • Tree Growth Dùn Coillich
  • Volunteers coffee break
  • Monitoring Natural Regeneration
  • Dyke Repairs Rural Skills Course
  • Sneezewort Dùn Coillich
  • Wire transport for fencing 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Some nourishment for the Beaver scouts after their hard work at Dùn Coillich
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Fencing Dùn Coillich
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • All geared up - learning maintenance skills as part of the Rural Skills Training
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Beavers Dùn Coillich
  • Grandtully Primary School and the SNH camera trap project
  • Breadalbane Tree Planting
  • Short-eared owl © Ronald Mitchell
  • Scrape Clearing
  • Joint working party with John Muir Trust in 2013 — at Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Training trainees after completion of training
  • Badger Dùn Coillich
  • Launch of Heart of Scotland Forest Partnership
  • Dyke building Sep 2017
  • Elderberry Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Course Fence Maintenance
  • Willie McGhee Andy Walker Holly
  • Grandtully Primary School and the SNH camera trap project
  • Outdoor fun for the Beaver scouts
  • Grandtully Primary
  • Monitoring Natural Regeneration
  • Butterfly Surveying
  • Enjoying the river
  • Short-eared owl © Ronald Mitchell
  • Yellow rattle (Rhinanthus minor)
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Route marking: Dùn Coillich
  • Repairing walls. Deer need to be controlled to protect the trees
  • Camera Trap
  • Clearing Bracken from around newly planted trees.
  • Rob Coope helping with transport in 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Badger Dùn Coillich
  • Dùn Coillich - for the people
  • Footpath Upgrades
  • Clearing Bracken from around newly planted trees.
  • Working with schools
  • First Aid Rural Skills 3
  • Working with schools
  • Dùn Coillich primroses (Primula vulgaris) in snow
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Dùn Coillich is a beautiful location for hillwalking
  • Clearing Bracken from around newly planted trees.
  • Food for Beaver Scouts after their hard work at Dùn Coillich
  • Breadalbane Tree Planting
  • Tree planting
  • Working with schools
  • Tree Growth Dùn Coillich
  • Upland Path Maintenance, Schiehallion
  • Dùn Coillich signage
  • Beaver scouts examining the pondlife
  • BBQ Autumn 2016 Dùn Coillich
  • Learning maintenance skills as part of the Rural Skills Training
  • Working with schools
  • Butterfly Surveying
  • Grandtully Primary School and the SNH camera trap project
  • Grandtully Primary
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Robin and Gillian Hull Memorial Bench
  • Breadalbane S1 on Dun Coillich summit
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Breadalbane Tree Planting
  • Schiehallion from Dùn Coillich
  • Freeing the trees
  • Glengoulandie dam: Dùn Coillich
  • Fence repairs
  • Working with schools
  • Fence Repairs
  • Dalradian Limestone covered in white lichen. Lichens are ‘indicator species’ which indicate pure air
  • Cubs working hard planting trees at Dùn Coillich, March 2017
  • Clints and Grykes
  • Joint working party with John Muir Trust in 2013 — at Dùn Coillich
  • Willie McGhee Andy Walker Holly
  • All geared up - learning maintenance skills as part of the Rural Skills Training
  • Scot's pine (Pinus sylvestris)
  • Recording biodiversity
  • Working with schools
  • There is a mink raft on Dùn Coillich which is there to check for the tracks of mink in clay
  • Tree planting
  • Strimming - learning maintenance skills as part of the Rural Skills Training
  • Rural Skills Course 2020
  • Visit by the Roving Rockologists
  • Freeing the trees
  • Joint work party with John Muir Trust
  • Dùn Coillich is a beautiful location for hillwalking
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Planting trees
  • Placing a camera trap to see what birds and other animals are on the move on Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Course Fence Maintenance
  • Grandtully Primary School and the SNH camera trap project
  • Lime kiln. Limestone was roasted with layers of peat or other fuel to create lime fertiliser
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Planting trees
  • LANTRA Brushcutter Training
  • Willie McGhee Andy Walker Holly
  • First Aid Rural Skills 3
  • Bell heather (Erica cinerea) and cross-leaved heath (Erica tetralix)
  • Launch of Heart of Scotland Forest Partnership
  • Fungus Hunt Dùn Coillich August 2017
  • Grandtully Primary School and the SNH camera trap project
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Glengoulandie dam: Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Grandtully Primary
  • Dyke building Sep 2017
  • Volunteers
  • Strimming - learning maintenance skills as part of the Rural Skills Training
  • Ring ouzel © Ronald Mitchell
  • Planting trees
  • Breadalbane Tree Planting
  • Learning about the Dalradian Limestone
  • Freeing the trees
  • Fencing Dùn Coillich
  • Club Moss (Lycopodium) Dùn Coillich
  • Fencing Dùn Coillich
  • Schiehallion from Dùn Coillich
  • School group with Professor Russell Coope 2012 Dùn Coillich
  • First Aid Rural Skills 3
  • Rural Skills Training Path Upgrade
  • Learning maintenance skills as part of the Rural Skills Training
  • Rural Skills Training trainee in action
  • Shieling Hut, one of the archaeological sites on Dùn Coillich
  • Having a break from work 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • BBQ October 2016 Dùn Coillich
  • The Hydro Scheme provides the Trust with an annual income. The scheme takes water from Dùn Coillich
  • Yellow rattle (Rhinanthus minor)
  • Allt Mohr: Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Training Chainsaw training
  • Viewing the Black Grouse lek on Dùn Coillich
  • Camera Trap Project June 2017
  • Volunteer Day
  • Treeplanting
  • Petty Whin Dùn Coillich
  • Trail marking
  • Badger (Meles meles) caught on camera trap
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Visitor hut. Posters, information sheets and books are available for the use of school parties and other visitors
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Clearing Bracken from around newly planted trees.
  • BBQ October 2016 Dùn Coillich
  • Launch of Heart of Scotland Forest Partnership
  • Wire transport for fencing 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Bilberries galore!
  • Rob Coope helping with transport in 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Sandra Winter working on Trish's enclosure in 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Tree planting
  • Beaver scouts and "the hut"
  • Fence repairs
  • Grandtully Primary School and the SNH camera trap project
  • Common heath moth
  • A social gathering
  • Monitoring Natural Regeneration
  • Yellow saxifrage (Saxifraga aizoides)
  • Beavers Dùn Coillich
  • Robin and Gillian Hull Memorial Bench
  • Monitoring Natural Regeneration
  • BBQ Autumn 2016 Dùn Coillich
  • Bell heather (Erica cinerea) and cross-leaved heath (Erica tetralix)
  • A diversity of grasses, including Yorkshire fog (Holcus lanatus), a rapid coloniser of disturbed and wetter ground
  • Heath-spotted orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii subsp. fuchsii)
  • A diversity of grasses, including Yorkshire fog (Holcus lanatus), a rapid coloniser of disturbed and wetter ground
  • Beavers Dùn Coillich
  • Beavers Dùn Coillich
  • Monitoring Natural Regeneration
  • An abundance of wild flowers
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Sandra Winter working on Trish's enclosure in 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Training trainee in action
  • The road to Dùn Coillich
  • Green veined white butterfly
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Stunning landscape
  • Granodiorite
  • Biotite schist erratic
  • Rural Skills Trainees learning how to do dry stane dyking
  • Improving access
  • Dùn Coillich - for the people
  • Badger (Meles meles) caught on camera trap
  • BBQ Autumn 2016 Dùn Coillich
  • Ring ouzel © Ronald Mitchell
  • Dùn Coillich - for the people
  • Recording biodiversity
  • Fencing volunteers in 2013 — Dùn Coillich
  • Quartzite - the main rock of Schiehallion
  • Trail marking
  • Having a break from work 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Lichens on fence post
  • Rural Skills Course Dry Stane Dyking
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Bog Asphodel Dùn Coillich
  • BBQ October 2016 Dùn Coillich
  • Beavers Dùn Coillich
  • A pink granite inclusion in the Schiehallion Boulder Bed
  • Camera Trap
  • The Hydro Scheme provides the Trust with an annual income. The scheme takes water from Dùn Coillich
  • A social gathering
  • Learning about nature
  • Food for Beaver Scouts after their hard work at Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Recording biodiversity
  • Green hairstreak
  • Dùn Coillich signage
  • Footpath Upgrades
  • Rural Skills Course Tree Planting
  • Dùn Coillich and Schiehallion from Glengoulandie
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Grandtully Primary
  • Sunken Track, one of the archaeological sites on Dùn Coillich
  • Coffee break
  • Breadalbane Rural Skills Pupils
  • Andy Pointer and Elspeth Paul marking the Centre of Scotland on Dùn Coillich
  • Fence Repairs
  • Grandtully Primary
  • The Beaver scouts having fun
  • Breadalbane S1 on Dun Coillich summit
  • Tree planting
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Fungus Hunt Dùn Coillich August 2017
  • Dyke building Sep 2017
  • Fencing volunteers in 2013 — Dùn Coillich
  • Butterfly Surveying
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Recording biodiversity

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Dùn Coillich

Access is freely available to anyone, member or not - as detailed under the 2003 Access law. Under the law people must be responsible to have access - see the Scottish Outdoor Access Code.

Dun Coillich is a facility for schools to use for activities such as:

  • The John Muir Award
  • Duke of Edinburgh Award
  • Biology and Geography Higher and Advanced Higher Projects
  • Biology and Geography short courses

Other Academic Organisations have also used and are encouraged to use Dun Coillich, such as:

  • Field Studies Council
  • Universities
  • County recorders
Yes, but please keep it under control. From March to July, keep it on a lead to avoid disturbing ground-nesting pipits, larks, merlin, grouse, short-eared owl, etc. See our page on Walking at Dùn Coillich
There is wheelchair access to the hut.

HIKING: There are some marked routes with coloured stakes around the perimeter and across the centre of Dun Coillich but these are not yet clearly-defined paths. Work is ongoing to turn these routes into paths but there is some way to go yet.

BIRD-WATCHING: Bird-watching is rewarding. The Blackcock Lek is the most charismatic feature but there are an assortment of birds of prey to be seen - buzzards, kestrels, golden eagle, short eared owl, barn owl. Other interesting birds include grasshopper warbler and ring ouzel. See our biodiversity section for more information.

MOUNTAIN-BIKING: There are no tracks that are suitable for mountain bikes.

SKIING: Cross country skiing would be a possibility when there is sufficient snow cover.

SWIMMING: There is nowhere suitable for swimming.

OTHER: The management committee also organises occasional events such BBQs, book launches, poetry readings. Check the Calendar for details of upcoming events. See our page on Walking at Dùn Coillich

The visitor hut (Observation and Educational Facility) is available to visiting groups and individuals (there are contact phone numbers to allow the code to be imparted to the visitor). There is a portaloo in the car park and we are in active consultation to get a permanent composting toilet installed alongside the car park.

The Wee Birks Field

The Wee Birks Field is close to the Lower Birks in Aberfeldy. It was purchased in 2016 and we are actively seeking inputs into how it should be utilised and managed. See more information on the field here.