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The small rural chapel of Saint-Ronan is located on a wooded hillside halfway between the towns of Plozévet and Landudec.

The current chapel bears the date 1720 above the oculus of its western façade, thus dating from the first half of the 18th century. However, some architectural features (roof pitch, arched openings, wall rails, etc.) could more accurately suggest the 17th century or even the end of the 16th century. This featured date may therefore reflect some modifications made after the actual construction of the chapel.

In any case, the current chapel occupies a very ancient place of worship where it likely replaced an earlier building. The clues are the presence alongside it of a low monolithic cross (not precisely dated) and a monolithic sarcophagus typical of the early Middle Ages (not precisely dated, between the Carolingian, or even Merovingian, period and the beginning of the Romanesque period, but its anthropomorphic shape would place it towards the end of this range).

This stone sarcophagus was once interpreted as that of Saint Ronan, before his body was transferred to Locronan. Ronan was one of those more or less legendary monks of Irish origin whom tradition considers to be evangelizers of Armorica.

This small chapel have yet to benefit from any administrative protection.

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Categories: Churches, Chapels and Abbeys | Renaissance | Early modern period | France | France /Brittany |