The name Rhue is derived from the Gaelic, An Rubha

meaning headland. The lighthouse at Rhue is located at the entrance to Loch Broom and is built at the point where legend has it that a group of sailors were found asleep and unharmed at after their boat had capsized one night during a storm. The full Gaelic name for the area is RudhaCadail which means point of the sleepy people, with the point meaning the headland.
Close to the minor road leading to Rhue the remains of two stone circles from two round houses can be seen. Carbon dating of other Scottish round houses has shown that they were occupied in Scotland from around 1,500 BC to around 100 AD, so it can only be assumed that these two round houses were occupied at some stage during this time frame. The climate and environment during this period would have been significantly different to the present. The climate would have been much drier and warmer and the surrounding area being covered in grassland and trees as opposed to heather and peat. File 8204.