Benmore (Gael. beinn-mor, 'great mountain'), a mountain in the W of Mull island, Argyllshire, occupying most of the peninsula between Loch-na-Keal and Loch Scridain, and culminating 21 miles W of Oban. It is the highest summit in Mull, and only 7 feet lower than Ben Lomond, having an altitude of 3185 feet above sea-level. Rising from low ground, so as to figure conspicuously from base to summit, it exhibits a beautiful outline, of somewhat conical figure, and not so unlike that of Vesuvins; it terminates in a crateriform summit; and it commands an extensive and diversified view over most of the Hebrides and great part of the mainland of Argyllshire, away to the N of Ireland.
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