Ardrenich = Moy
https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/beauly/pdfs/SURVY1.pdfARDRANNICH # (5840)
KILTARLITY & CONVINTH(KCV), CONVINTH(CTX) Settlement NH516414 (Accurate position) 45m
duabus Moys vulg. nuncup. Arddranich 1511 NLS Dep. 327, 59/2 [Original of the charter confirmed by the king and printed RMS ii no. 3602. Occurs as Arddranich thrice.]
Ardranich 1511 RMS, ii no. 3602 [Other source details: John Ogilvie de Laveroklaw sells to Thomas lord Fraser de Lovet and his heirs and assignees: i.e. 'terras suas de duabus Moys vulgariter nuncupat. Ardranich ;' In the original charter of John Ogilvie (NLS Dep. 327/51.2) it is written Arddranich (thrice).]
Ardrene 1655 NLS Dep. 327, 44/1 [RMS x no. 406 has Ardiene.]
Ardranniche 1681 Chisholm Writs, no. 521 [Disposition by Wm. Fraser oy and
apparent heir to William Fraser of Kilbockie, in favour of Alex. Cheisholme of Comer, who has paid 'several of my creditors .... of my urgent and necessary affairs',...... annual rent of 20 merks from the davach land of Grome and Fingask and from the east part of a davochland of Ardranniche commonly called Moy.]
Ardrynich 1799x1800 Brown Plans, no. 25 Ardrennich 1852 RHP3650
(Alias) Moy
G àirde; G raithneach (Probable) Notes associated with name:
'Height of bracken'? According to a charter of 1511 this is the alternative name for 'two Moys', and so most likely refers to the 2 davochs called Moy of 1220 x 1221 (Mor. Reg. nos. 21, 51). Thus Ardrannich is a large territory, and much reduced by the time it is mapped as a newly laid out farm in the mid-19th century (RHP3608, on which the NGR NH516414 is based). The height in the name most likely refers to the low ridge between Tomnacross and Belladrum, east of the A833 and west of the Belladrum Burn. Note that in 1681 mention is made of an annual rent of 20 merks from the davach land of Grome and Fingask and from the east part of a davochland of Ardranniche commonly called Moy (Chisholm Writs no. 521).
