Tarfessock

{{short description|Hill in Scotland}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Tarfessock

| photo = Tarfessock.jpg

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| elevation_m = 694.2

| elevation_ref = {{Cite web |url=https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/local/tarfessock-south-ayrshire |title=Tarfessock, South Ayrshire (DG8 6TA) |website=OS GetOutside |access-date=2020-04-11}}

| prominence_m = 68.5

| prominence_ref = {{Cite web|url=https://www.hill-bagging.co.uk/mountaindetails.php?qu=S&rf=1700|title=Mountain Search}}

| listing = Tu,Sim,D,GT,DN{{Cite web|url=https://www.hill-bagging.co.uk/mountaindetails.php?qu=S&rf=1700|title=Mountain Search}}

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| location = South Ayrshire, Scotland

| range =Range of the Awful Hand, Galloway Hills, Southern Uplands

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| grid_ref_UK = NX 40906 89186

| topo = OS Landranger 77

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Tarfessock is a hill in the Range of the Awful Hand, a sub-range of the Galloway Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. A craggy hill, it is the lowest Donald in the range, being completely obscured by Kirriereoch Hill when viewed from the Merrick. A nearby south top is dotted with a series of lochans. A farmhouse of the same name is located to the west,{{Cite map|url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/74425850|title=Ayrshire, Sheet LXIII (includes: Barr; Minnigaff)|year=1858|publisher=Ordnance Survey}} which along with the hill was at one time the property of the Marquess of Ailsa.{{Cite book |url=https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/ordnance-survey-name-books/ayrshire-os-name-books-1855-1857/ayrshire-volume-09/51 |title=Ayrshire Ordnance Survey Name Book |publisher=Ordnance Survey |volume=9|id=OS1/3/9/51|via=ScotlandsPlaces|pages=51, 55}}