Old Photographs Moy Hall Inverness Scotland

Old photograph of Moy Hall, near Inverness, Scotland. The original Castle of Moy stood on an island in Loch Moy but in 1700 a house was built at the north end of the loch and has been the home of the chiefs of Clan Mackintosh since the fourteenth century. It was here that Charles Edward Stuart was entertained in 1746, by Lady Anne Mackintosh, a Jacobite supporter. Her husband, the clan chief, was fighting for the Government Army. Prince Charles escaped capture here. Lord Louden's government soldiers were sent from Inverness, to halt his progress. Lady Mackintosh, secretly informed about the planned capture, arranged for four of her men to hide by the roadside when the government troops approached. Setting off their pistols to fire one at a time, they were to shout for the clans of MacDonald and Cameron to advance, thus tricking the government army into thinking they had stumbled into the whole of the Jacobite Army. The trick worked, and Lord Louden's troops speedily retreated. The event is known as The Rout of Moy. The house was accidentally burned down in the time of Aeneas, the twenty-third chief. He had Moy Hall built in 1800. It was rebuilt in the 1870s by architect John Rhind who added the tower and two large wings. The Hall had sixty rooms. During the 1950s the building was found to have dry rot. Despite remedial treatment it was finally demolished and a new, much plainer house, designed by Gordon Gunn of George Gordon and Company was built in 1957.

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