A short walk up from the road, you will find Røynevarden - a cotter's farm clinging to the hillside above Suldalsvatnet. It may look modest today, but this was actually one of the better smallholdings in Suldal.
Jakob Gabrielson cleared the land here around 1805. The oldest house, which he probably brought with him from another farm, dates from the 1820s. They called it the røykstova - the smoke house - because it had no chimney, just a hole in the roof. When the family grew too large for everyone to sleep inside, the children had to sleep in the sheephouse loft.
The newer house was bought at auction from a neighbour who sold everything and left for America with his family.
On a good year, the farm could support two cows, five goats and some sheep. The last residents, a brother and sister named Halvor and Randi, left in 1946. The six buildings are now preserved by Ryfylkemuseet.