Le Quiou

Le Quiou ; Ar C'haeoù
region	Brittany
Department	Cotes-d'Armor
Arrondissement	Dinan
Canton	Lanvallay
Community association	Dinan agglomeration
Coordinates	48 ° 21 ′ N , 2 ° 0 ′ W 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

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