Kylloplass
A small forest-cleared farm-place in the Stjørdal valley upvalley from Hegra — a *plass* in the Norwegian sense, abandoned since 1890.
The Gråhårsklubben (the Oldsters) — Sara, Kirsten, Dave — see what can be seen, walk what can be walked, and spend the time in the kind of quiet a long-emptied small-holding asks for.
Why this place
Kylloplass is a plass — the Norwegian word for a small farm-holding cleared from forest and worked by a single family across generations. It sits upvalley from Hegra along the Stjørdalselva river. The clearing has been empty since 1890, the year its last recorded user died; the buildings are long gone and what remains is the ground itself.
What happens here
The visit is brief — a stop on the same day as the parish churches at Værnes and Hegra. Walk what can be walked. A long-emptied small-holding asks for the kind of quiet you can give it.
Background
The Norwegian word plass (literally “place”) is the term for a small farm-holding cleared from forest and named for the family that worked the clearing. Plasser were common across inland Trøndelag from the seventeenth century into the nineteenth, when many emptied — their occupants emigrating to America, dying out, or absorbed into larger neighbouring farms.
Kyllo Ovre, the small holding under Upper Kyllan, sits at the position the local real-estate record names as the last in continuous use. After 1890 the clearing reverted to forest and to memory.
Journals from Kylloplass
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