The village of Moy is situated between the villages of Daviot

Daviot, Highland

Daviot is a village in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is about south east of the city of Inverness, next to the A9, the main road to Inverness....

 and Tomatin

Tomatin

Tomatin is a small village on the River Findhorn in Strathdearn in the Scottish Highlands about south of the city of Inverness. The name derives from the Scottish Gaelic name Tom-Ah-Tin . The river Findhorn rises at Coignafearn, a large game estate near Tomatin, and then passes through Tomatin...

, in the Highland

Highland (council area)

Highland is a council area in the Scottish Highlands and is the largest local government area in both Scotland and the United Kingdom as a whole. It shares borders with the council areas of Moray, Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross, and Argyll and Bute. Their councils, and those of Angus and...

 region of Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

. It sits beside Loch Moy

Loch Moy

Loch M'hoy is a freshwater loch beside the village of M'hoy near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands.-References:...

 and used to have a railway station on the Inverness and Aviemore Direct Railway

Inverness and Aviemore Direct Railway

The Inverness and Aviemore Direct Railway was built by the Highland Railway to provide a direct route between Inverness and Aviemore.-History:...

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History

On 16th February 1746 Charles Edward Stuart

Charles Edward Stuart

Prince Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Severino Maria Stuart commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie or The Young Pretender was the second Jacobite pretender to the thrones of Great Britain , and Ireland...

 spent the night at Moy Hall

Moy Hall

M'hoy Hall near the village of Moy south of Inverness has been the home of the Clan Mackintosh chiefs since the 14th century.Jacobite supporter Lady Anne Farquharson-MacKintosh entertained Charles Edward Stuart here in 1746...

. To prevent the troops from Inverness descending on the estate in surprise during the night, Lady Anne Farquharson-MacKintosh

Lady Anne Farquharson-MacKintosh

Lady Anne Farquharson-Mackintosh was a Jacobite of the Clan Farquharson and the wife of Angus, Chief of the Clan MacKintosh.Born in 1723 to John Farquharson of Invercauld, chief of the Clan Farquharson and staunch Jacobite...

sent her youngest son along with the blacksmith and two 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 to Inverness, an event known as the Rout of Moy. There was only one casualty of this incident, the piper for the Hanoverian troops, possibly a famous McCrimmon, was killed.