The account comes from an early twentieth century clan history reproduced online, which itself points out the drawbacks to the story: Moy was not the seat of the Mackintosh chiefs in early times, and there were no Grants of Urquhart. Forsyth says the Curse of Moy is well known, which shows it was familiar in Strathspey by 1900.
The period of no son succeeding can be checked against the genealogy of the chiefs, and is the part that makes the tradition seem to work. Moy Hall was built by Aeneas Mackintosh before his death in 1820. It is also where Lady Anne Mackintosh arranged the Rout of Moy in 1746, which is history and not folklore.
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