Le Gorvello – Pagan Past

By most estimates, the village has been the site of human habitation for more than two thousand years. Like in much of Brittany, the earliest traces of human habitation date to the Neolithic period. Records left by one of the first Christian missionaries to visit the region, Abbot Le Mené, report that two megaliths—one ten and the other fifteen feet tall—once stood proudly among the gnarly oak trees and testified to Gorvello's pre-Celtic settlement.

Today, the chapel of St. Roch, at the north end of the village next to the cemetary, stands where the ancient pagan altars of Le Gorvello are thought to have been.