Le Croisty (French pronunciation: [lə kʁwasti]; Breton: Ar C'hroesti) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France.
Toponymy
From the breton kroaz which means cross and ty which means house. Le Croisty can be translated as the house of the cross. In the past, the village belonged to the Knights Hospitaller.
Geography
Le Croisty is located 30 km (19 mi) east of Pontivy, 35 km (22 mi) north of Lorient and 64 km (40 mi) northwest of Vannes. Historically, the village belongs to Vannetais and Pays Pourlet. Le Croisty is border by Priziac to the west, by Saint-Tugdual to the north, by Ploërdut to the east and by Saint-Caradec-Trégomel to the south. Apart from the village centre, there are about fifty hamlets. Most of the hamlets consist of two or three houses but others are larger like the village of Cornhospital.
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History
Le Croisty was created as a new commune in 1903. Before that, it came within the administrative area of the village of Saint-Tugdual.
Population
Inhabitants of Le Croisty are called in French Croistyates.
See also
- Communes of the Morbihan department
References
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)
