Tour Scotland photograph of Sound of Luing, Luing is one of the Slate Islands in the Firth of Lorn, in west Argyll, about sixteen miles south of Oban. Lunga is another one of the Slate Islands in the Firth of Lorn, Scotland. The name Lunga is derived from the Old Norse for isle of the longships. Lunga is just over a mile west of the island of Luing. The main industries on Luing are tourism, lobster fishing and beef farming. In the early part of the Christian era Luing would have formed part of the Gaelic kingdom of Dalriada. From the 9th to 13th centuries almost all of the Hebrides came under the control of Norse settlers and formed part of the Kingdom of the Isles. However, when Edgar of Scotland signed a treaty with Magnus Barefoot in 1098, formally acknowledged the existing situation by giving up Scottish claims to the Hebrides and Kintyre, Luing and Lismore were retained by the Scots.
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