The well-known folksong Mairi's Wedding contains the phrase past the shieling, through the town which helps protect this word from obscurity. A Gaelic song (covered on Uam by Julie Fowlis) is Bothan Àirigh am Bràigh Raithneach (A shieling on the Braes of Rannoch), while the 'weaver poet' Robert Tannahill's song to Gilly Callum begins I'll hie me to the shieling hill, / And bide amang the braes, Callum...