Útí á Bø (Settlement)

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The outlying village of Úti á Bø south of Kirkjubøur is one of the oldest outlying villages. Here lived two tenants of the king’s yeoman in Kirkjubøur and the sheriff of Suðurstreymoy, respectively. The last inhabitants moved from the area in 1894, which has since been deserted. In the 1990s, a new sheephouse was built in the village, to which there is a primitive road.

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  • Jóan Pauli Joensen

    (b. 1945) D.Phil. in History and D.Phil. in Ethnology. Professor Emeritus and adjunct professor at the University of the Faroe Islands and former rector of the University of the Faroe Islands.