Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of the main hall on visit to Kinloch Castle on the Island of Rum one of the Small Isles of the Inner Hebrides. 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. The galleried main hall contains stags heads, tiger skins and Eastern antiques are mixed with full length portraits and luxuriant soft furnishings. It is lit by three full height mullioned and transomed stained glass bay windows.
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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