Le Quiou
Le Quiou Ar C'haeoù |
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region | Brittany | |
Department | Cotes-d'Armor | |
Arrondissement | Dinan | |
Canton | Lanvallay | |
Community association | Dinan agglomeration | |
Coordinates | 48 ° 21 ′ N , 2 ° 0 ′ W | |
height | 13-77 m | |
surface | 5.06 km 2 | |
Residents | 305 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 60 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 22630 | |
INSEE code | 22263 |
Le Quiou ( Breton Ar C'haeoù ) is a French commune with 305 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Côtes-d'Armor department in the Brittany region . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Dinan and the Canton of Lanvallay . The residents call themselves Quiousiens / Quiousiennes .
geography
Le Quiou is about 33 kilometers south of Saint-Malo and about 36 kilometers northwest of Rennes in the east of the Côtes-d'Armor department.
history
Finds from the Bronze Age and the Gallo-Roman period prove an early settlement. The parish was part of the Dinan District from 1793 to 1801. It was also part of the canton of Évran from 1793 to 2015 . Since 1801, Le Quiou has been administratively assigned to the Arrondissement of Dinan. Le Quiou was first mentioned by name as S. Marie de Caihou around 1140 in a document from the Saint-Malo priory in Dinan.
Population development
year | 1793 | 1800 | 1836 | 1846 | 1872 | 1911 | 1921 | 1936 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 |
Residents | 487 | 501 | 490 | 436 | 545 | 552 | 437 | 442 | 326 | 331 | 319 | 313 | 286 | 305 | 321 | 338 |
Sources: Cassini and INSEE |
The increasing mechanization of agriculture and the high number of those who died in the First World War led to a drop in the number of inhabitants to the lows of recent times.
Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Le Quiou
- Castle Château du Hac (14th-17th century), next to cross from the 15th century
- Notre-Dame / Saint-Lunaire village church (built 1864/1865)
- Chapel in Tréveleuc from the 16th century
- Road cross from 1771 in La Cour-Neuve
- Manor Manoir de la Ville-Gohen 18th century
- Saint-Lunaire village fountain from 1938 in La Saudrais-du-Quiou
- Lime kiln from 1892
- Memorial to the Fallen
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes des Côtes-d'Armor. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-017-5 , pp. 345-347.
Web links
- Location of the municipality
- Brief information about the community
- Le Quiou on the IGN website
- Photos of the village church and the chapel
- Information about the history and the sights
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description of the sights (French) ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Memorial to the fallen of the two world wars