"shiel" is found in a 1792 robert burns song, "bessy and her spinnin' wheel": "on lofty aiks the cushats wail, / and echo cons the doolfu' tale; / the lintwhites in the hazel braes, / delighted, rival ither's lays; / the craik amang the claver hay, / the pairtrick whirring o'er the ley, / the swallow jinkin' round my shiel, / amuse me at my spinnin' wheel." "shiel" is found again in a 1792 robert burns poem, "the country lass". there it mentions a shiel used for dairy production as referenced in the following section.