Isle Of Rùm On History Visit To The Inner Hebrides Of Scotland

Tour Scotland very short travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the Isle of Rùm, a Scottish Gaelic name often anglicised to Rum, the largest of the Small Isles, on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to the Inner Hebrides. The island has been inhabited since the 8th millennium BC and provides some of the earliest known evidence of human occupation in Scotland. The early Celtic and Norse settlers left only a few written accounts and artefacts. From the 12th to 13th centuries on, the island was held by various clans including the MacLeans of Coll. In 1825 the inhabitants of Rùm, then numbering some 450 people, were given a year's notice to quit. The inhabitants of Rùm had simply been tenant farmers, paying rent to the laird; they owned neither the land they worked, nor the houses in which they lived. On 11 July 1826, about 300 of the inhabitants boarded two overcrowded ships bound for Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, Canada. The laird, and Dr Lachlan, paid for their journey. The remaining population followed in 1827 Similar evictions happened all over the gaelic-speaking parts of Scotland, and collectively became known as the Highland Clearances. There are about 900 red deer on the Isle of Rum. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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