A Munro is the term used for a Scottish mountain which possesses a height of over three thousand feet. These mountains are named for Sir Hugh Munro, who was born in the year 1856 and passed away in the year 1919. They are named such because Sir Munro generated the initial attempt to make an extensive directory of such hills in the year 1891, calling it Munro's Tables.

Before Munro's Tables was published, there was a lot of doubt regarding the amount of peaks that measured over 3000 feet in Scotland. The original listing made by Sir Hugh Munro, recorded a total of 538 peaks over the benchmark of 3000 feet, out of which 283 were considered as separate mountains. The term Munro is applied only to the 'separate mountains', the lesser peaks are simply called as 'tops'.