Jeløy (until 1920 named ''Moss herred'' - ''

Moss Mosses are small, non-vascular plant, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic phylum, division Bryophyta (, ) ''sensu stricto''. Bryophyta (''sensu lato'', Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryo ...

rural district'') was a former municipality in

Østfold Østfold () is a county in Eastern Norway, which from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2023 was part of Viken. Østfold borders Akershus and southwestern Sweden (Västra Götaland County and Värmland), while Buskerud and Vestfold are on the other ...

county, Norway. Jeløy was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see

formannskapsdistrikt () was the name of a Norwegian self-governing municipality. The name was used from the establishment these municipalities in 1838 until the name fell out of use in 1863. The municipalities had their legal basis from two laws enacted on 14 Jan ...

). It was merged with the urban municipality of Moss on July 1, 1943. The old municipality consisted of the

Jeløya Jeløya is an island located in the municipality of Moss, Norway, Moss in Østfold County, Norway. History Jeløya was actually a peninsula in the Oslofjord, but was divided from the mainland in 1855 by the Moss canal (''Mossekanalen'') a 20-m ...

peninsula/island as well as the mainland rural district surrounding Moss city. Today we use both the name, Jeløy and Jeløya for the island in Moss.

The name

The Norse forms of the name were ''Jalund'' and ''Jǫlund''. The last element is the

suffix In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns and adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can ca ...

''-und'' (which is common in old Norwegian names of islands), but the meaning of the first element is unknown.

Røed gård

Røed gård is a manor house and farm located in southern Jeløy. The buildings are almost 300 years old. Roed Manor history is known from the medieval era, at which time, St. Clemens' church (''Clemenskirken'') owned the farm. The manor house was built by timber merchant Just Treschow in 1723. The main building is decorated in the Baroque, Rococo, Biedermeier, Empire and Art Nouveau.

References

Former municipalities of Norway {{østfold-geo-stub no:Jeløy nn:Jeløy