Finistère
Finistère (, ; ) is a Departments of France, department of France in the extreme west of Brittany. Its prefecture is Quimper and its largest city is Brest, France, Brest. In 2019, it had a population of 915,090.department of
Brittany
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in north-western
France
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.
Population
Inhabitants of Guilligomarc'h are called in French ''Guillogomarc'hois''.
Geography
Guilligomarc'h is located in southeastern part of Finistère department, northeast of
Quimperlé
Quimperlé (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Finistère Departments of France, department, region of Brittany (administrative region), Brittany, northwestern France.
Geography
Quimperlé is in the southeast of Finistère, 20 km t ...
and north of
Lorient
Lorient (; ) is a town (''Communes of France, commune'') and Port, seaport in the Morbihan Departments of France, department of Brittany (administrative region), Brittany in western France.
History
Prehistory and classical antiquity
Beginn ...
. Historically, the village belongs to Vannetais. The river
Ellé
The Ellé (; ) is a river in the region of Brittany, western France. Its source is south of the town Rostrenen, in the south-west of the department Côtes-d'Armor. The Ellé flows southwest through the following ''département in France, départe ...
forms the commune's western border and the river
Scorff
The Scorff (; ) River flows from central Brittany and enters the Atlantic Ocean on the south coast in Lorient.
The Scorff rises north of Langoëlan, in the Morbihan department, and flows through the towns of Guémené-sur-Scorff and Pont-Scorf ...
its eastern border. Apart from the village centre, there are about seventy hamlets.
Neighboring communes
Map
List of hamlets
History
The oldest surviving parish registers date back to
1624
Events
January–March
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* January 22 – Korean General Yi Gwal leads an uprising of 12,000 soldiers against King Injo i ...
.
Gallery
Guilligomarc'h Nouvelle mairie.jpg, The town hall.
296 Guilligomarch Château.jpg, Sach castle.
018 Guilligomarc'h Chapelle Saint-Eloi.jpg, Saint Eloi's chapel.
016 Guilligomarc'h Chapelle Saint-Julien.jpg, Saint Julien's chapel.
File:019 Guilligomarc'h Ancienne ferme rénovée.jpg,
Thatched
Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge ('' Cladium mariscus''), rushes, heather, or palm branches, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. Since the bulk of ...
roof cottage in Saint-Eloi hamlet.
Guilligomarc'h ferme Saint Coal.JPG, Old house in Saint Coal hamlet.
See also
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Communes of the Finistère department
The following is a list of the 277 Communes of France, communes of the Finistère Departments of France, department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2025):