The existing settlement is the second village to bear this name, the original having been a mile to the northwest of the present position and inundated by the sea.

This transposition was not an overnight catastrophe but a gradual withdrawal from the earlier site during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

Some sources (e.g. Graham), claim it is the third village to bear the name, perhaps erroneously assuming that the seventeenth century destruction of the nearby Barony of Culbin by shifting sands resulted in an earlier relocation.

[4] In the seventeenth century Findhorn was the principal seaport of Moray and vessels regularly sailed to and from all parts of the North Sea and as far as the Baltic Ports.

The early twentieth century saw a decline in fishing as the traditional two-masted zulus were in their turn being replaced by larger vessels.

Some of the craft, 'temporarily' beached on the western shore of the Bay whilst their crews fought in the First World War, were never used again.