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Encyclopedia Britannica



LOCMARIAQUER

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 855 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LOB-LUP
LOCMARIAQUER , a
village
  of western
France
 , on the W. shore of the Gulf of
Morbihan
 , in the department of
Morbihan
 , 8z m. S. of
Auray
  by road. Pop. (1906) 756. Locmariaquer has a small port, and
oyster
  culture is carried on
close
  to it.
Roman
  remains are to be seen, but the
place
  owes its celebrity to the megalithic monuments in the vicinity, some of which are among the largest extant. The menhir of Men-er-H'roeck (Fairy
stone
 ), which was broken into four pieces by lightning in the 18th
century
 , previously measured about 67 ft. in height, and from 9 to 13 ft. in thickness.


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