Rhu-Stoer or Point of Stoer, a bold rocky headland in Assynt parish, Sutherland, terminating the peninsula in the extreme W of the parish, and presenting to the sea, 9¼ miles NW of Lochinver village, a detached mass of sandstone, rising to the height of 530 feet. A stack, or insulated towering sea-rock, confronting it, rises to a height of about 250 feet, and has such a curious outline as to seem at a distance like a large ship under studding sails.—Ord. Sur., sh. 107, 1881.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)