Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheilings
Literary usage of Sheilings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1877)
"I did not, however, intend to remove them from their possessions in Bernera, but
merely from their sheilings or summer grazings on the mainland—that is in ..."
2. The Celtic Monthly: A Magazine for Highlanders (1900)
"Mr. Cameron mentions with minuteness the names of the other tenants on Loch Arkaig
side downwards, with their respective sheilings, and of the successive ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1885)
"On the hills are sheilings or huts, made of turf or stone, ... When the people
arrive at their destination and have put their sheilings in order, ..."
4. Sketch of the Civil and Traditional History of Caithness, from the Tenth Century by James Tait Calder (1861)
"These valuable products of the dairy were usually manufactured in the summer
season, at what was called the sheilings, that is, ..."
5. Glasgow, Past and Present: Illustrated in Dean of Guild Court Reports, and by James Pagan, Aliquis, Robert Reid, J. B., Guild Court (Glasgow, Strathclyde) (1856)
"On my road, l found some sheilings possessed by M'Keas, ... i and got to their
houses and sheilings about daybreak, and surrounded and narrowly i ..."
6. Glasgow, Past and Present: Illustrated in Dean of Guild Court Reports, and by James Pagan, Guild Court (Glasgow, Strathclyde), Aliquis, Robert Reid, J. B. (1856)
"Accordingly, the party marched at eleven o'clock at iii^rht, and got to their
houses and sheilings about daybreak, and surrounded and narrowly searched ..."
7. Highland Tay: From Tyndrum to Dunkeld by Hugh Macmillan (1901)
"These sheilings are in the corry of Ben Lawers, following up the old zigzag
peat-track ... All tradition of these sheilings has disappeared in the district; ..."
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