page_title: Shieling
hierarchical_section_title: Shieling
caption_attribution_description: English: Ruined sheiling A well-preserved house high in the glen above Kilmelford. There were several sheilings in Gleann Mòr, but this is the best-preserved structure.
context_page_description: A shieling, 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 in summer, implying transhumance between there and a valley settlement in winter.
context_section_description: 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 in summer, implying transhumance between there and a valley settlement in winter.
caption: Ruined shieling south of Oban
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