It is the biggest of the Small Isles, and the fifteenth biggest Scottish island, however is possessed by just around thirty or so people, every one of whom live in the town of Kinloch on the east drift. The island has been occupied subsequent to the eighth thousand years BC and gives a portion of the most punctual known proof of human occupation in Scotland. The early Celtic and Norse pioneers left just a couple of composed records and antiquities. From the twelfth to thirteenth hundreds of years on, the island was held by different families including the MacLeans of Coll. The populace developed to more than 400 by the late eighteenth century however was cleared of its indigenous populace somewhere around 1826 and 1828. The island then turned into a wearing home, the intriguing Kinloch Castle being built by the Bulloughs in 1900. Rùm was acquired by the Nature Conservancy Council in 1957.