A hill in Central Dumfries and Galloway, Craiglee rises to 531m (1742 feet) to the northwest of Loch Dee, 10 miles (16 km) west of St John's Town of Dalry. Its summit is marked by an Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar. Craiglee represents the southernmost extent of the Loch Doon Igneous Complex, an enormous mass of granite injected into the Silurian sedimentary rocks of SW Scotland around 400 million years ago. Coincidentally, another hill called Craiglee, 10 miles (16 km) to the north, marks the northernmost extent of the complex.
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