Gosné

Commune in Brittany, France

Gosné Gosnae (Gallo) Goneg (Breton)
Commune
Town hall
Location of Gosné
(2020–2026)		Jean Dupire^[1]
Area ¹	18.14 km² (7.00 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	2,051
• Density	110/km² (290/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	35121 /35140
Elevation	53–114 m (174–374 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Gosné (French pronunciation: [ɡone]; Breton: Goneg; Gallo: Gosnae) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France.

International relations

It is twinned with Ballyheigue in County Kerry, Ireland.

Population

Inhabitants of Gosné are called Gosnéens in French.

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	976	—
1800	886	−1.37%
1806	906	+0.37%
1821	976	+0.50%
1831	1,025	+0.49%
1836	1,025	+0.00%
1841	1,002	−0.45%
1846	1,101	+1.90%
1851	1,197	+1.69%
1856	1,237	+0.66%
1861	1,257	+0.32%
1866	1,297	+0.63%
1872	1,270	−0.35%
1876	1,225	−0.90%
1881	1,198	−0.44%
1886	1,221	+0.38%
1891	1,213	−0.13%
1896	1,161	−0.87%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	1,178	+0.29%
1906	1,203	+0.42%
1911	1,176	−0.45%
1921	1,033	−1.29%
1926	1,017	−0.31%
1931	986	−0.62%
1936	950	−0.74%
1946	949	−0.01%
1954	935	−0.19%
1962	918	−0.23%
1968	817	−1.92%
1975	875	+0.98%
1982	1,014	+2.13%
1990	1,195	+2.07%
1999	1,380	+1.61%
2007	1,622	+2.04%
2012	1,851	+2.68%
2017	1,991	+1.47%

Source: EHESS^[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[4]

Geography

Gosné is located at 24 km (15 mi) in the North-East of Rennes and at 49 km (30 mi) in the south of the Mont Saint-Michel.

The bordering communes are Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier, Liffré, and Ercé-près-Liffré.

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 9 August 2021.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Gosné, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gosné.

Geography of Brittany (in French)
The page of the commune on infobretagne.com (in French)
Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)