Le Croisty

Le Croisty

Ar C'hroesti
Le Croisty Ar C'hroesti
Commune
	The parish church in Le Croisty
	Location of Le Croisty
	Le Croisty Le Croisty
	Coordinates: 48°03′57″N 3°21′45″W / 48.0658°N 3.3625°W
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Morbihan
Arrondissement	Pontivy
Canton	Gourin
Intercommunality	Roi Morvan Communauté
Government
• Mayor (2026–32)	René Gry
Area 1	15.88 km2 (6.13 sq mi)
Population (2023)	739
• Density	46.5/km2 (121/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	56048 /56540
Elevation	123–255 m (404–837 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Le Croisty (French pronunciation: [lə kʁwasti]; Breton: Ar C'hroesti) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France.^[3]

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.

Map

Topographic map

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.

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1906	1,088	—
1911	1,156	+1.22%
1921	1,217	+0.52%
1926	1,315	+1.56%
1931	1,332	+0.26%
1936	1,241	−1.41%
1946	1,232	−0.07%
1954	1,038	−2.12%
1962	1,106	+0.80%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	1,113	+0.11%
1975	1,019	−1.25%
1982	921	−1.43%
1990	846	−1.06%
1999	735	−1.55%
2007	689	−0.80%
2012	734	+1.27%
2017	709	−0.69%
2023	739	+0.69%

Source: EHESS^[4] and INSEE (1968-2023)^[5]

References

↑ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 5 May 2026.
↑ "Populations de référence 2023" (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 18 December 2025.
↑ INSEE commune file
↑ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Le Croisty, EHESS (in French).
↑ Population municipale entre 1968 et 2023, INSEE

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)

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[1] "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 5 May 2026.

[2] "Populations de référence 2023" (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 18 December 2025.

[3] INSEE commune file

[ehess-4] Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Le Croisty, EHESS (in French).

[pophist-5] Population municipale entre 1968 et 2023, INSEE

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