Luncarty

The name Luncarty, recorded in 1250 as Lumphortyn, may be of Gaelic origin. The name may involve the element longartaibh, a plural form of longphort meaning variously "harbour, palace, encampment".{{cite book |last1=Watson |first1=W.J. |last2=Taylor |first2=Simon |title=The Celtic Place-Names of Scotland |date=2011 |publisher=Birlinn LTD |isbn=9781906566357 |edition=reprint }}

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The historian Hector Boece (1465–1536), in his History of the Scottish People, records that, in 990, Kenneth III of Scotland defeated the Danes near Luncarty.{{cite web |url=http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townhistory1270.html |title=Luncarty |work=Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical |publisher=Gazetteer for Scotland |date=1882–1885 |access-date=2008-07-09 |author=Groome, Francis H.}} However, the Scottish historian John Hill Burton strongly suspected the battle of Luncarty to be an invention of Hector Boece.[https://archive.org/details/fromagricola04burtuoft/page/364 The History of Scotland from Agricola's Invasion to the Revolution of 1688,Vol.1], By John Hill Burton; p.364-365, Will. Blackwood and Sons, 1867A Complete Guide to Heraldry; p.415; By Arthur Charles Fox Davies, and Graham Johnston; Published by Kessinger Publishing, 2004; {{ISBN|1-4179-0630-8}}, {{ISBN|978-1-4179-0630-7}}; [https://books.google.com/books?id=0EBiwcy4x5EC link] Burton was incorrect. Walter Bower,{{cite book|last=S Taylor, DER Watt, B Scott, eds|title=Scotichronicon by Walter Bower in Latin and English.Vol.5|year=1990|publisher=Aberdeen University Press|location=Aberdeen|pages=341–343}} writing in his Scotichronicon around 1440, some 87 years before Boece first published his Scotorum Historia, refers to the battle briefly as follows:

:"that remarkable battle of Luncarty, in which the Norsemen with their king were totally destroyed". Bower does not quote specific sources concerning the battle, but, two sentences later, he refers in a general way to ancient writings that he has consulted. The term Norsemen would include Danes.

The present village was founded in 1752 by William Sandeman, to house workers at his bleachfields.{{cite web |url=http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst1270.html |title=Luncarty |work=Gazetteer for Scotland |access-date=2008-07-09}} The village formerly had a railway station,{{cite web|title=Luncarty, Station|url=https://canmore.org.uk/site/161768/luncarty-station|website=canmore.org.uk|access-date=19 July 2017|language=en}} and the Perth to Inverness railway line still runs through the village.

A rare example of a morthouse is located in the churchyard, built to frustrate the activities of bodysnatchers in the 19th century.

William Sandeman and his partner Hector Turnbull manufactured linen in Perth and bleached it in Luncarty, for instance with an order of {{convert|12,000|to|15,000|yd|m|abbr=off}} of "Soldiers' shirting". In 1752 he leveled {{convert|12|acre|ha|0|abbr=off}} of land in Luncarty to form bleachfields. By 1790 when William died, the Luncarty bleachfields covered {{convert|80|acre|ha|abbr=off}} and processed {{convert|500,000|yd|m|abbr=off}} of cloth annually. Second only to agriculture, linen manufacture was a major Scottish industry in the late 18th century — linen then became less important with the introduction of cotton.Perth Entrepreneurs: the Sandemans of Springfield by Charles D Waterston, 2008, pages 27–33: these pages reference 19 other information sources. {{ISBN|978-0-905452-52-4}}

The village is home to the football club Luncarty F.C., who play in the {{Scottish football updater|Luncarty}}.

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• Christopher Bowes, musician
• Jimmy Guthrie, footballer
• Jim Patterson, footballer
• George Turnbull, civil engineer

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• [http://luncarty.org/ Luncarty Community Website]

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