with Cairnsgarroch summit cairn just beyond.
Follow the wall, with path alongside, down across a wide col, and quite steeply up Meaul. The wall ends 70 metres northeast of Meaul trig point.
A faint quad-bike path (and a small people-path) runs south along most of the following ridgeline to Meikle Millyea. Leave Meaul roughly southwest, through a long col with a couple of pools, and then go up south, just left of the true crest, onto the spur above Goat Craigs. The well-defined stony ridgeline runs southwest, then south with drops to the left, to the large and ancient cairn on Carlin’s Cairn.
In the years before Bannockburn Robert the Bruce conducted guerrilla warfare through these hills. Legend tells of a night attack at Clatteringshaws, down to the east, where the local farm-wife donated her cattle, with saucepans attached, as an imitation army in the dark. Once he’d become king, the grateful Robert gave her this land, and the cairn commemorates this.
Carlin Cairn’s southern spur, a col, and a rise – all south – lead to the trig point on the plateau of Corserine.The variant route arrives here from the east.
Milldown seen from Corserine, with Loch Dungeon and very distant Criffel
The descent line slants slightly left (south-southeast), and unless Millfire is visible ahead you need a compass (or GPS) line here. At 700m level the ridgeline reforms, running south and then southeast, with plantations just below on the right. Keep close to drops on the left for the small path to the cairn on Millfire. The ridge runs level for 800 metres, then rises; above the col a wall crosses, and now walkers have a guiding wall along the ridgeline. The summit cairn of Milldown is out to the left of the wall, above the steep drop to Loch Dungeon.
On Millfire, looking back to Corserine
Wall and path run down through rugged ground to the small Lochans of Auchniebut for the final rise to Meikle Millyea. Arrive at a trig point and large ancient cairn. Harvey mapping has the true summit (749m) at the cairn 400 metres southwest, and it’s a pleasant plateau wander out and back to visit it (also gaining southward views to Loch Dee).
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