Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fort Central
Île-d'Houat, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Fort (cad. AL 320) : inscription par arrêté du 30 octobre 2000
- Protection dates
- 2000/10/30 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fort
- Main period of construction
- 2e quart 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1846
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- Er Prad
- Commune
- Île-d'Houat
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.38773, -2.96227
- Mérimée reference
- PA56000029
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1764 map "Carte de Belle-Isle et les isles d'Houat et d'Hedic." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ce fort a été construit entre 1846 et 1855, puis abandonné dès 1874. Il est de forme rectangulaire à quatre bastions d'angle. La caserne prévue à l'ouest pour 250 hommes a servi de carrière aux iliens et a aujourd'hui complètement disparu.
English translation
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History
This fort was built between 1846 and 1855, then abandoned from 1874. It is rectangular in form with four corner bastions. The barracks provided to the west for 250 men served as a quarry for islanders and has today completely disappeared.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.