Sròn

Sròn^[a] is the Scottish Gaelic word meaning nose or point^[1] and is the name of some hills in the Scottish Highlands.

The name "sròn" is often applied to pointed hills or promontories that form the edge of a mountain massive, giving the appearance of a nose-like ridge. As such, they are often not the highest hilltops; in fact only one of the 282 Munros is called Sròn: Sròn a' Choire Ghairbh ("the nose of the rough corrie"), located west of Loch Lochy.

Sròn also appears in names of towns (often anglicized as Stron),^{[citation needed]} such as Strontian (Sròn an t-Sìtheinn), the point of the fairy hill (Sìth),^[2] and Stranraer, (An t-Sròn Reamhar) the broad point.^[3]