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Gouesnac' H is a common department of the Finistere, in the area Brittany, in France.

The name into Breton is Gouenac' H . In French as into Breton, one pronounces ( gouénarrh ).

Geography

Site: Along the estuary of the Odet which borders it in the West, broadside in the East by the axis Quimper - Bénodet, with the variation although between two transportation routes, this commune remained rural up to one recent period, and the fact that the Breton pronunciation remained shows only it clearly.

A diverticulum of Odet also subjected to the tide, the Handle of Saint-Cadou , constitutes the limit in North with Quimper (left Southern and old parish Ergué-Armel).

The plate resulting from the peneplain hercynienne dominates the river in the West abruptly and is notched by small valleys leading to splits carrying in their name the Breton word pors (Pors-Meillou, Pors-Kéraign, Pors-Guen), the handle and the steepsided valley of Kerandraon constituting a marked Southern limit good.

In the North-West, the estuary is boxed deeply between Gouesnac' H and Plomelin in a succession of short meanders to wooded cliffs called the Transfer-Courts whose sinuosity constitutes a limit with the tonnage of the boats going up to the wearing of Quimper.

The mixed-farming and the breeding were always prevalent and the existence of a traditional cider manufacturer profiting from a.O.C cider of Cornwall shows that the apple tree is always cultivated there.

History

Probably resulting from démenbrement from the parish from Pleuven, Gouesnac' H has to accommodate with High-Means-Old monastic establishment, as attests it the oldest form raised in the Cartulaire of Quimper to XIVe century Goumenech (delivery gouvenec' H ) whose compound menec' H seems to be the plural of manac' H = Moine. Before a tumulus on a ploughed up dolmen testifies to Prehistory, as well as the Gallic tools and weapons (1000 objects found in hiding-place).

The Romans and Gallo-Romans had created a fortified camp keeping Odet and left various traces of occupation.

The feudal period left few traces and one can note only that the families Penfeuntenyo, Kersaluden and Lanhuron have rights of preeminence in the parish church.

A remarkable fact is the great forgiveness of Saint-Cadou which is held at the end of September. It was the occasion of competitions of fight concretes, because the fighters had taken for owner the saint whose name means “combat” (Breton “kad”). About 1865, the authorities, vis-a-vis the overflows, prohibited the forgiveness which was positioned back only in 1965 and is become again a great date of the calendar of the Breton fight now called “gouren”.

A purely local legend claims that holy Cadou would have actually lived a hermitage near the vault or rather of the close vault of Pénity, disappeared, but this name is often associated with the habitat of the saints.

The recent period makes commune suburbs of Quimper increasingly urbanized.

Monuments

Église Saint-Pierre-and-Saint-Paul (1630 at end XIXe)
Chapelle Notre-Dame of Vray Secours (1729)
Chapelle Holy-Bores (ruined)
Chapelle Saint-Cadou (1578) with retable XVIIe (workshop Déan?)
Vault saint-Maudet
Oratorical Ve-VIIe century (ruined)
Oratorical of Saint-Herbot (XVIe)
Manor of Penfrat

Events

Births

Death

Eric Tabarly lived in Gouesnach

External bonds

Town hall of Gouesnac' H: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/mairie-de-gouesnach/sommair.htm

See too

http://www.insee.fr/fr/recensement/nouv_recens/resultats/repartition/chiffres_cles/n3/29/n3_29060.pdf the last census of Gouesnac' H in 2004

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