" I have written this notebook to share with you
useful addresses and news about the gîte.
.............................................See you soon. "
........................................Sandrine

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Thz history of our house

The house is mentioned in the " General Inventory of the Monuments and the Artistic Heritage of France", Ploumilliau, the domestic and agricultural architecture (study carried out in 2004 by Mr P. Pichouron of the Conseil General of Côtes-d'Armor).

Gouéliou (Gouelioù, Gouelou) means "the sails".

From left to right: woman spinning flax, the "douet", the "JHS"

The house is an old flax farm. The manufacture and spinning of flax was widespread in the Trégor at the beginning of 20th century. Today, in the garden of gîte, a granite trough with a drainage hole (douet) testifies to the prescence of a small retting pit (poul lin), supplied from a clear water spring. The flax stalks were deposited there in order to separate the fibres from the bark (retting). This was the first of many stages in the preparation of the flax, such as stripping, spinning, for finally weaving the cloth into articles such as shirts or sails.

The oldest construction dates from the 17th C. The three letters JHS (Jesus Hominum Salvator) are engraved on the granite corner stone, which according to the tradition of the first half of the 18th C would have been the first stone to be laid. The letter H form the cross on which Jesus was martyred.