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Ros was born on Skye and educated at Fortes in Moray before moving with his family to Gairloch (Wester Ross). Like his father he was a travelling packman, a trade often associated with poetry (see eg "Wandering Wull"). His travels took him to Stornoway where his unrequited love for Marion Ross became a major theme of his poetry. He became parish schoolmaster in Gairloch in 1786 and died in 1790, supposedly of love for Marion, but more probably from tuberculosis. Some of his poems were translated by Iain Crichton Smith.
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