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==Name== The name comes from the [[Scottish Gaelic|Gaelic]] ''Sìth Chailleann'', meaning "[[Sídhe|fairy hill]] of the [[Caledonians]]";<ref name="ainmean"/> compare nearby [[Dunkeld]] (Gaelic ''Dùn Chailleann''), whose name means "fort of the Caledonians".<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofcelticp0000unse/page/21 |title=The History of the Celtic Place-Names of Scotland |last=Watson |first=William J. |location=Edinburgh and London |publisher=William Blackwood and Sons |date=1926 |page=21 }}</ref> A Lowland name for the mountain, recorded in the 18th century, was "Maiden [[Breast-shaped hill|Pap]]".<ref>"Perthshire afforded us a remarkable hill, nearly in the centre of Scotland, of sufficient height, tolerably detached from other hills, and considerably larger from east to west than from north to south, called by the people of the low country Maiden-Pap, but by the neighbouring inhabitants Schiehallion, which I have since been informed signifies in the Erse language Constant Storm; a name well adapted to the appearance which it so frequently exhibits to those who live near it, by the clouds and mists which usually crown its summit" {{cite web| url=http://www.sillittopages.co.uk/schie/schie57.html| title=Maskelyne on Schiehallion| publisher=RMS Archives| access-date=11 April 2009}}</ref>
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