Langonnet

Langonnet

Langoned
Langonnet Langoned
Commune
	The Church of Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul, in Langonnet
	Coat of arms
	Location of Langonnet
	Langonnet Langonnet
	Coordinates: 48°06′23″N 3°29′32″W / 48.1064°N 3.4922°W
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Morbihan
Arrondissement	Pontivy
Canton	Gourin
Intercommunality	Pays du Roi Morvan
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Françoise Guillerm
Area 1	85.40 km2 (32.97 sq mi)
Population (2021)	1,771
• Density	21/km2 (54/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	56100 /56630
Elevation	104–292 m (341–958 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Langonnet (Breton: Langoned) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France.

Geography

Langonnet is in north-west part of Cornouaille, in Lower Brittany. It's one of the few Cornouaille parishes that are now in the Morbihan department. Thus the main language was the Breton language until the advent of intensive farming after the second world war at which point the people, who were bilingual, switched to the French language.

The parish holds two main human settlements:

the actual town of Langonnet in the south
the town of La Trinité-Langonnet in north-east

In the south-east there's the Notre-Dame de Langonnet abbey.

The highest point of the parish the calotte Saint Joseph, a round hill whose top is at 292 meters. It offers a nice view over the surrounding area (most of the parish is at 190 meter level).

Etymology

Its Breton name is written Langoned in modern breton but it has been written differently along the years (because of different tentatives to transcribe the Breton phonetic system with the Latin alphabet):

XIe siècle : (Lan)Chunuett
1152 : Langenoit
1161 : Langonio
1168 : Lanngonio
1301 : Lenguenet
1368 : Langonec
1368 : Langonio
1373 : Languenec
1516 : Langonet
1516 : Langonio
1536 : Langonnet
1574 : Langonec
1630 : Langouet
Today: Langoned

The Langoned name is said to come from Lann-Conet, the monastery (See lan in Breton, llan in welsh language) of Conet^[3] (or Conoit, Konoed, Kon(n)ed, Konoid = Cynwyd, Kynwyd or Kynyd in welsh), a Welsh saint that came in Brittany.

Demographics

Inhabitants of Langonnet are called in French Langonnetais, in Breton Langonediz.

Breton language

The municipality launched a linguistic plan through Ya d'ar brezhoneg on 27 January 2005.

References

^ "Maires du Morbihan" (PDF). Préfecture du Morbihan. 7 July 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Orme, Nicholas (2000). OUP Oxford (ed.). The Saints of Cornwall. Oxford. p. 93. ISBN 0-19-820765-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

INSEE commune file

External links

Official site (in French)
Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
Mayors of Morbihan Association (in French)

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[1] "Maires du Morbihan" (PDF). Préfecture du Morbihan. 7 July 2020.

[popleg2021-2] "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.

[3] Orme, Nicholas (2000). OUP Oxford (ed.). The Saints of Cornwall. Oxford. p. 93. ISBN 0-19-820765-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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