Locminé

Locminé

Logunec'h
Locminé Logunec'h
Commune
	The Place de la République in Locminé
	Coat of arms
	Location of Locminé
	Locminé Locminé
	Coordinates: 47°53′15″N 2°50′04″W / 47.8875°N 2.8344°W
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Morbihan
Arrondissement	Pontivy
Canton	Grand-Champ
Intercommunality	Centre Morbihan Communauté
Government
• Mayor (2014—2020)	Grégoire Super
Area 1	4.86 km2 (1.88 sq mi)
Population (2015)	4,159
• Density	860/km2 (2,200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	56117 /56500
Elevation	69–153 m (226–502 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Locminé (Template:Lang-br) is a commune in the Morbihan department of the region of Brittany in north-western France.

Toponymy

The name Locminé comes from the Breton Loc'h menec'h, itself from the Latin Locus monachorum – (sacred) place of the monks – after the monastery established here in 1008. Use of the term loc'h to denote the many small monasteries founded in Brittany between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries was commonplace, and this is the origin of the majority of parish names beginning in Loc-.

Breton language

As of September 2013, 156 children (i.e. 18.5% of all those enrolled) were being educated in the bilingual streams of Locminé's state and Catholic primary schools.^[1]