Shielings With Music On History Visit To The Highlands Of Scotland

Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with Scottish music of shielings, or temporary homes, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the Highlands. A shieling, Scottish Gaelic: àirigh, also spelt sheiling, shealing and sheeling, is a hut, or collection of huts, once common in wild or lonely places in the hills and mountains of Scotland and northern England. The word is also used for a mountain pasture for the grazing of cattle. The term shieling is Scottish, originally denoting a summer dwelling on a seasonal pasture high in the hills, particularly for shepherds and later coming to mean a more substantial and permanent small farm building in stone. The first recorded use of the term is from 1568. The term is from shiel, from the Northern dialect Middle English forms schele or shale, probably akin to Old Frisian skul meaning hiding place and to Old Norse Skjol meaning shelter and Skali meaning hut. Farmers and their families lived in shielings to have their livestock graze common land. The mountain huts generally fell out of use by the end of the 17th century, although in remote areas this system continued into the 18th century. Ruins of shielings are abundant in high or marginal land in Scotland and Northern England, along with place-names containing shield or their Gaelic equivalents, with names such as Pollokshields in Glasgow, Arinagour on the island of Coll, Galashiels in the Scottish Borders, and Shiels Brae near Bewcastle. The Lone Shieling, built in 1942 in Canada's Cape Breton Highlands National Park, is modelled on a Scottish bothran or shepherds' hut of the type that was used during the summer when it was possible to move the sheep up on to the hills to graze. It has the same design as the Lone Sheiling on the Scottish isle of Skye, romanticised in the lines " From the lone shieling of the misty island. Mountains divide us and the waste of seas. Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, And we in dreams behold the Hebrides. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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