sentences:  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".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.