The village of Moy ( gd, A' Mhòigh) is situated between the villages of Daviot and Tomatin, in the

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region of

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. It sits beside

Loch Moy Loch Moy (from the Scottish Gaelic ''Loch A'Mhoigh'' meaning the Loch of the Plain) is a freshwater loch beside the village of Moy near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. History There is an island on the loch called the Isle of Moy and on ...

and used to have a

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on the Inverness and Aviemore Direct Railway.

Rout of Moy

On 16 February 1746

Charles Edward Stuart Charles Edward Louis John Sylvester Maria Casimir Stuart (20 December 1720 – 30 January 1788) was the elder son of James Francis Edward Stuart, grandson of James II and VII, and the Stuart claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland and ...

spent the night at

Moy Hall Moy Hall near the village of Moy, south of Inverness, is the home of the chiefs of the Clan Mackintosh, a Highland Scottish clan. History The original Moy Hall was built in about 1700 to replace Moy Castle which was on Moy Island on Loch Moy ...

. To prevent the troops from Inverness descending on the estate in surprise during the night,

Lady Anne Farquharson-MacKintosh Anne Mackintosh (1723–1784) was a Scottish Jacobite of the Clan Farquharson, a Scottish clan of the Scottish Highlands and also the wife of Angus Mackintosh, chief of the Clan Mackintosh. She was the only female military leader during th ...

sent Donald Fraser the blacksmith. The grid reference given by the RCAHMS is , a little to the west of Moy at the pass between Meall Mor and Ben nan Cailleach. and four other retainers to watch the road from Inverness. Sure enough, during the night several hundred Hanoverian troops were detected marching down the road. The Mackintosh defenders started beating their swords on rocks, jumping from place to place and shouting the war cries of different clans in the Chattan Confederation. Thinking that they had been ambushed, the British troops retreated leaving Inverness open for the Prince to capture the next day, an event known as the Rout of Moy. There was only one casualty of this incident; the piper for the Hanoverian troops, possibly a MacCrimmon of the famous MacCrimmon piping family, was killed.

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Populated places in Inverness committee area {{Highland-geo-stub

Rout of Moy

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