Coët Organt

The entrance to the village of Coët Organ, or Organ’s wood in English, is marked by a roadside cross bearing two dates on its base: 1669, the probable date of its construction, and 1951, in connection with the 1950 Jubilee, a great religious prayer event promulgated by the Pope after the 1939-1945 war. The construction is characteristic with Christ on the cross and its scooped-out shaft, decorated with excrescences, probable evocations of the buboes of the plague.

Coët Organ consists of three large farms organized around courtyards with buildings, stables, barns and bread ovens. The first to the north is a series of dwellings, the most recent of which, with its symmetrical bays, dates from 1818. The quality of its construction is obvious, as it its doghouse attached to the facade, rather contemporary to the typical wells of the west Morbihan, richly carved and dated 1771. The other farmhouses are just as beautiful: the layout of the facades and the architecture of the windows suggest successive constructions between the end of the 16th and the 18th centuries.