Criffel is a hill in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland.

The slopes of Criffel feature the upland vegetation of heather, bog cotton and blaeberry and are inhabited by skylarks.

[2] Because Old Norse fjall had been borrowed into Middle English by the twelfth century, it is not possible to determine whether or not the name was coined by Scandinavian speakers.

[4] In 1930 Maxwell proposed Scandinavian kraka fjall 'raven's or crow's hill' or Lowland Scots Craw Fell.

[5] William J. Watson rejected a derivation from kraka fjall on the grounds that it would develop into a form like Crackel.