Loch Moy On Visit To The Highlands Of Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of Loch Moy, from the Scottish Gaelic Loch A'Mhoigh meaning the Loch of the Plain, a freshwater loch beside the village of Moy near Inverness on visit to the Scottish Highlands. There is an island on the loch called the Isle of Moy and on this island are the ruins of Moy Castle that was seat of the Chiefs of Clan Mackintosh from the 14th century to about 1700. According to the Old Statistical Account of Scotland there were the ruins of a house with four fire rooms and that above the gate an inscription stated that it had been built in 1665 by Lachlan Mackintosh, 20th chief of Clan Mackintosh. In about 1700, the Mackintoshes built a new seat in-land called Moy Hall. The surname Moy was first found in Shropshire where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. The earliest reference to the name was Jeanne de Moy, a wealthy dowager widow of William Crispin IX, Baron of Bec in France about the year 1325. The name originated in Moy in Normandy. However, the name Moy became interpreted in northwestern England and Wales, and on the Welsh border as Moyes, Moyse, and Moses, even Moesen, the latter being a Welsh version being found in Denbigh, Llangollen and Wrexham. The name was also extended to Mostyn, and became attached to Vychan, Lord of Mostyn. John Moy, aged 20, was an Irish agricultural labourer from Donegal, Ireland who departed on 8th July 1841 from Greenock, Scotland aboard the ship New York Packet arriving in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 23rd October 1841; John Moy landed in Virginia, America, in 1655; Elizabeth Moy, arrived in Maryland, America, in 1665; Elizabeth Moy arrived in Maryland, America, in 1665. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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