Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of the exterior on visit to Kinloch Castle on the Island of Rum one of the Small Isles of the Inner Hebrides. Kinloch could hardly be less baronial in form, but a turretted central tower and corner drum towers relieve the horizontal rhythm of the long two storey ranges, which are set four square about a central court. And the temptation to crenellate every wallhead proved irresistable: even the ground floor skirting of the arcaded verandah is serated. Kinloch Castle, Scottish Gaelic: Caisteal Cheann Locha, is a late Victorian mansion which was built as a private residence for Sir George Bullough, a textile tycoon from Lancashire, England, whose father bought Rùm as his summer residence and shooting estate. Construction began in 1897, and was completed in 1900.
Rùm was owned by Alexander Maclean of Coll in the early 19th century. At that time, during the Napoleonic Wars, kelp from the Scottish islands was a valuable commodity, being used to produce soda ash for use in explosives. After the war, prices collapsed and Maclean was forced to lease the island to a relative, Lachlan Maclean, for sheep farming. As a result, the entire population, which counted 443 people in 1795, were cleared from the island by 1828, only for new tenants to be brought in from Skye and Muck to service the sheep farm.
This castle is closed at present due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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