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

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region of Scotland. 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, Highland, Moy near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. History There is an island on the loch called the Isle of ...

and used to have a

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on the Inverness and Aviemore Direct Railway. On 16 February 1746

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spent the night at Moy Hall. To prevent the troops from Inverness descending on the estate in surprise during the night, Lady Anne Farquharson-MacKintosh 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. Surely enough, during the night, several hundred government 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

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. Thinking that they had been ambushed, the government 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 the 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 {{Inverness-geo-stub