Luncarty
Sign in to saveLuncarty (; 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.
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Place details
- Locality
- Luncarty
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1,680
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.official_name
- Luncarty
- UK place.gaelic_name
- Longartaidh
- UK place.population_ref
- ()
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NO095298
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- Perth and Kinross
- UK place.lieutenancy_scotland
- Perth and Kinross
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Ochil and South Perthshire
- UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament
- Perthshire North
- UK place.post_town
- PERTH
- UK place.postcode_district
- PH1
- UK place.postcode_area
- PH
- UK place.dial_code
- 01738
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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".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Luncarty” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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