Moy, Highland

For other places called Moy, see Moy (disambiguation).

Moy Scottish Gaelic: A' Mhoigh
Moy Location within the Inverness area
OS grid reference	NH771337
•  Edinburgh	104 mi (167 km)
•  London	435 mi (700 km)
Council area	Highland
Lieutenancy area	Inverness
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Inverness
Postcode district	IV13 7
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
UK Parliament	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
Scottish Parliament	Inverness and Nairn
List of places UK Scotland 57°22′52″N4°02′43″W / 57.38106°N 4.0452°W / 57.38106; -4.0452

The old railway station at Moy

The village of Moy (Scottish Gaelic : A' Mhoigh ^[1] ) is situated between the villages of Daviot and Tomatin, in the Highland region of Scotland. It sits beside Loch Moy and used to have a railway station on the Inverness and Aviemore Direct Railway. ^[2]

On 16 February 1746 Charles Edward Stuart 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, ^[3] 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 Chattan Confederation. 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. ^{[4] [5]} 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.

External links

• Media related to Moy, Highland at Wikimedia Commons

Notes and references

1. Moy - A' Mhoigh Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba
2. Gittings, Bruce; Munro, David. "Moy, Highland". The Gazetteer for Scotland. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
3. Historic Environment Scotland. "Rout of Moy (Site no. NH73SW 1)" . Retrieved 2 July 2025.. The grid reference given by Historic Environment Scotland is NH72983464 , a little to the west of Moy at the pass between Meall Mor and Ben nan Cailleach.
4. James Browne (1849). A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans. A. Fullarton. pp. 209–211. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
5. Riding, Jacqueline (2016). Jacobites: A New History of the 45 Rebellion. Bloomsbury. p. 372-373. ISBN   978-1408819128.