Parish Esquibien, which comes from the large parish of Plogoff once had a larger territory. It included, under the Old Regime and the French Revolution until the truce Audierne Primelin and some villages (in Britain a truce is a subdivision of the parish).

The meaning of the name Esquibien still remains unclear. Eight explanations are in turn feeding the origin of the name. The most likely seems nevertheless related to Breton word eskob meaning bishop. Indeed, the patron of the parish called St. Onneau is shown with cap, miter and crosier. Formerly the village was situated on the dunes of Goarem Trez, the village disappeared Gannaec. These places, which is still a source of sand called Feunteun border-ing on-Don in the survey documents, belonged to the Episcopal stronghold of Cornwall.

The archives of the diocese mention that the people of her village left Gannaec the Year “four sticks” (1111) to settle permanently in the village today. The most likely explanation is the gradual silting up of the site and the recovery of the topsoil by the formation of dunes.
The parish enjoys the protection of its patron saint – Saint Onneau – which gave its name to the parish church (built in the second half of the XVI th century and rebuilt in the XVII th century) and the fountain in the village. Forgiveness of Esquibien held on the second Sunday of August.

“The farming” of Gorre is protected by St. Bridget, whose chapel is Landuguentel. Forgiveness takes place the first Sunday of September.

“The sea leg” of the parish is, in turn, protected by St. Edwette whose forgiveness is held the third Sunday in July.

Do not forget of course all the threats from the sea and pirate attacks that we had to protect themselves by building a guard post in the XVII th century on the hills of Penn Enez year.It remains today one of two guns now installed!

Source: esquibien.fr