Leira is a village in the municipality of

Indre Fosen Indre Fosen is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Fosen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Årnset. Other villages in Indre Fosen include Askjem, Dalbygda, Ha ...

Trøndelag Trøndelag (; sma, Trööndelage) is a county in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County ( no, Trondhjems Amt); in 1804 the county was split into Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag by the King of Denmar ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. It is located about north of the village of

Årnset Årnset (also known as Rissa) is the administrative centre of the municipality of Indre Fosen in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located on the north shore of the lake Botn about south of the village of Hasselvika and about north of the villa ...

, along the north shore of the lake Botn. It is about west of the lake Storvatnet.

Rissa Church Rissa Church ( no, Rissa kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Indre Fosen municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Leira, just northeast of the village of Årnset. It is one of the churches for t ...

is located on the south side of Leira.

Name

The name is derived from ''leire'' which means '

clay Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4). Clays develop plasticity when wet, due to a molecular film of water surrounding the clay par ...

'. ''Leira'' is a common name of rivers many places in Norway.

References

Villages in Trøndelag Indre Fosen {{Trøndelag-geo-stub