Leirvik is located on Eysturoy’s east-cost.
Leirvik is an old village. Excavations have shown that there was a farm here in the Viking age (year 900).
Tradition says that ‘Black Death’ (the plague) killed everyone but a little girl in Leirvik in 1349.
The tunnel from Gøta to Leirvik is 2300 meters long. It was blown through the mountain in 1985.
In 2004 a subsea tunnel was drilled to Klaksvík.
Leirvik has a factory where they make salted fish for export to the Mediterranean countries.
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