Luncarty (; pronounced Lung-cur-tay ) is a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, approximately north of Perth. It lies between the A9 to the west, and the River Tay to the east.
Etymology 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".
History
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. However, the Scottish historian John Hill Burton strongly suspected the battle of Luncarty to be an invention of Hector Boece. 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; , ; link Burton was incorrect. Walter Bower, 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. The village formerly had a railway station, which closed in 1951, but 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.
Bleachfields William Sandeman and his partner Hector Turnbull manufactured linen in Perth and bleached it in Luncarty, for instance with an order of of "Soldiers' shirting". In 1752 he leveled of land in Luncarty to form bleachfields. By 1790 when William died, the Luncarty bleachfields covered and processed 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.
Sport The village is home to the football club Luncarty F.C., who play in the .
Notable persons Christopher Bowes, musician Jimmy Guthrie, footballer Jim Patterson, footballer George Turnbull, civil engineer
References
External links
Luncarty, Redgorton and Moneydie Community Council