Luncarty (; pronounced ''Lung''-cur-tay) ) is a village in

Perth and Kinross Perth and Kinross ( sco, Pairth an Kinross; gd, Peairt agus Ceann Rois) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland and a Lieutenancy Area. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Clackmannanshire, Dundee, Fife, Highland and S ...

, Scotland, approximately north of

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

. It lies between the A9 to the west, and the

River Tay The River Tay ( gd, Tatha, ; probably from the conjectured Brythonic ''Tausa'', possibly meaning 'silent one' or 'strong one' or, simply, 'flowing') is the longest river in Scotland and the seventh-longest in Great Britain. The Tay originates ...

to the east.

Etymology

The name ''Luncarty'', recorded in 1250 as ''Lumphortyn'', may be of

Gaelic Gaelic is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels". As a noun it refers to the group of languages spoken by the Gaels, or to any one of the languages individually. Gaelic languages are spoken in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, and Ca ...

origin. The name may involve the element ''longartaibh'', a plural form of ''longphort'' meaning variously "harbour, palace, encampment".

History

The historian

Hector Boece Hector Boece (; also spelled Boyce or Boise; 1465–1536), known in Latin as Hector Boecius or Boethius, was a Scottish philosopher and historian, and the first Principal of King's College in Aberdeen, a predecessor of the University of Abe ...

(1465–1536), in his ''History of the Scottish People'', records that, in 990,

Kenneth III of Scotland Cináed mac Duib ( Modern Gaelic: ''Coinneach mac Dhuibh''; c. 966 – c. 25 March 1005), anglicised as Kenneth III, and nicknamed ''An Donn'' ("the Chief" or "the Brown"), was King of Scots from 997 to 1005. He was the son of Dub (Dub mac Maíl ...

defeated the

Danes Danes ( da, danskere, ) are a North Germanic ethnic group and nationality native to Denmark and a modern nation identified with the country of Denmark. This connection may be ancestral, legal, historical, or cultural. Danes generally regard t ...

near Luncarty. However, the Scottish historian

John Hill Burton John Hill Burton FRSE (22 August 1809 – 10 August 1881) was a Scottish advocate, historian and economist. The author of ''Life and Correspondence of David Hume'', he was secretary of the Scottish Prison Board (1854–77), and Historiograph ...

strongly suspected the battle of Luncarty to be an invention of Hector Boece. Burton was incorrect. Walter Bower, writing in his

Scotichronicon The ''Scotichronicon'' is a 15th-century chronicle by the Scottish historian Walter Bower. It is a continuation of historian-priest John of Fordun's earlier work '' Chronica Gentis Scotorum'' beginning with the founding of Ireland and thereby ...

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

bleachfield A bleachfield or bleaching green was an open area used for spreading cloth on the ground to be purified and whitened by the action of the sunlight. Bleaching fields were usually found in and around mill towns in Great Britain and were an integral ...

s. The village formerly had a railway station, and the Perth to Inverness railway line still runs through the village. A rare example of a

morthouse A morthouse or deadhouse was a specialised secure building usually located in a churchyard where bodies were temporarily interred before a formal funeral took place. These buildings date back to the time when bodysnatchers or resurrectionists fre ...

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 Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

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 Community Website
{{authority control Villages in Perth and Kinross 1752 establishments in Scotland Populated places established in 1752