ClasséDolmen · protected 1938Allée couverte coudée avec la base de son tumulus circulairePhoto: Pymouss · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cimetière · Photo: GFreihalter · CC BY-SA 3.014historic monuments
History of Crach · Monuments historiques
14 historic monuments, more per resident than 99% of compared French towns
The Culture ministry lists 14 historic monuments in Crach: 5 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 9 inscrit (the second level). The oldest date from prehistory. We have photos of 4 of them.
Monuments historiques
14
41 per 10,000 residents
median compared town 2.5
median compared town 2.5
Classé
5
the highest protection
Inscrit
9
the second level
Oldest part
Prehistory
of any listed monument
Homes before 1919
5%
median compared town 7.4%
In pictures
Monuments of Crach in pictures
Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Allée couverte coudée avec la base de son tumulus circulaireClassé
Dolmen de Kervin-BrigitteInscrit
Château du Plessis-KaërInscrit+1See all photosPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its license; names open the monument’s page.
Towns its size
Crach has the most monuments of 41 towns its size
Compared French towns of 3,400 to 3,400 residents, by historic monuments.
Crach14
#1 of 41for monuments per resident (41 per 10,000). Most per resident: Crach, Saint-Céré and Bellevigne-les-Châteaux.
The median town of these has 1. 16 of the 41 have none.
Map
Where Crach’s monuments stand
Every monument with a point on the ministry’s list; the larger, darker dots are classé.
ClasséInscrit
Tap a dot to open the monument’s page: its record, photo and the monuments around it.
14 monuments by protection
5 Classé9 Inscrit
Classé is the higher protection: any work on the building needs the State’s permission. Work on an inscrit building must be declared to the State in advance. Around both, building work in sight of the monument (usually within 500 m) needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France.
Points as the ministry gives them: a monument spread over several plots has one point. 1 monument has no point on the map.
Classé
5 classé monuments in Crach
Classé is France’s highest protection for a building, held by about a third of the monuments on the list. Each card opens the monument’s page.
Dolmen · protected 1926Deux dolmens à galerie avec restes de tumulus
Dolmen · protected 1938Dolmen à galerie
Dolmen · protected 1938Dolmen
Dolmen · protected 1938Dolmen
Inscrit
9 inscrit monuments in Crach
Inscrit is the second level of protection: the building is worth keeping, and any work on it must be declared.
Inscrit
InscritChâteau · protected 2023Château du Plessis-KaërPart of the building is protectedPhoto: Inconnu (vers 1930) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
InscritCemetery · protected 1925CimetièrePart of the building is protectedPhoto: GFreihalter · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Dolmen · protected 2023Dolmen de Kercado
Dolmen · protected 2023Dolmen de la pointe Vide-Bouteilles
Dolmen · protected 2023Dolmen de Peudrec
Funerary monument · protected 2023Dolmens de Kerantré
Burial mound · protected 2023Tumulus et alignement de la baie de Saint-Jean
Archaeological site · protected 2002Aqueduc gallo-romain de Rosnarho
What’s protected
Most of Crach’s monuments are tombs and cemeteries
Each monument under the main domain Mérimée gives it.
Tombs & cemeteries12
Houses & homes1
Bridges & engineering1
Tombs & cemeteries: 12 of 14 monuments (86%).
Mérimée files each monument under one main domain: a château with its chapel counts once.
How old
How old Crach’s monuments are
Each monument once, by the oldest part the list dates.
Prehistory & Antiquity to the 4th c.12
Middle Ages 5th–15th c.0
16th to 18th century Renaissance to Revolution1
19th century 1801–19000
20th century and later since 19010
12 of 13 dated monuments have parts from before 1500. The oldest dated: Allée couverte coudée avec la base de son tumulus circulaire (Prehistory). 1 monument has no date on the list.
When protected
6 of Crach’s monuments were protected in 2023
Monuments by the year they were first protected.
2023 · 6
192019401960198020002020
The first was protected in 1925. 6 were protected in 2023 alone. 7 have been added since 2011.
Neighbors
Historic monuments in the towns around Crach
In brief
Crach in brief
Allée couverte coudée avec la base de son tumulus circulaire, from prehistory, is the oldest monument in Crach. All told, the list holds 14 historic monuments, 5 of them classé. Per resident, it has more historic monuments than 99% of compared French towns. No town its size has more historic monuments: it leads the 41 nearest in population.
In 2022 the Mission Patrimoine picked Château du Plessis-Kaër as a monument in danger to save. Most entries on the list, 86%, are tombs and cemeteries. Most of its dated monuments come from prehistory or Antiquity: 12 of 13. The rest is about typical: 5% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 7.4% in the median compared French town.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Monuments historiques. France protects buildings at two levels. Classé, the higher (about a third of the list), means any work needs the State’s permission; inscrit means work must be declared to the State in advance. The Culture ministry’s Mérimée base lists every protected building, and this page counts them.
- Partly protected. Many entries protect part of a building only (its façades and roofs, a staircase, a painted room). Each counts as one monument, like a fully protected one.
- Where a monument is counted. In the commune named on its protection, moved to today’s commune where communes have since merged. A monument listed for several communes counts in each.
- Sites patrimoniaux remarquables. Since 2016 France’s protected historic areas (the former secteurs sauvegardés, ZPPAUP and AVAP) share one name. Inside one, building work follows the area’s plan and needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France.
- What isn’t here. Protected objects (furniture, organs, paintings), old buildings with no protection, UNESCO World Heritage listings and labels such as “Plus Beaux Villages de France” aren’t on this list, so this page doesn’t count them.
- No History Grade yet. Everything on this page is described, not graded: France’s History Grade isn’t built yet.
Questions about the history of Crach
How many historic monuments are there in Crach?
The Culture ministry lists 14 historic monuments in Crach: 5 classé and 9 inscrit.
Which monuments in Crach are classé?
5, among them Allée couverte coudée avec la base de son tumulus circulaire, Deux dolmens à galerie avec restes de tumulus and Dolmen à galerie.
How old are the monuments of Crach?
The oldest parts of its listed monuments date from prehistory.
When were monuments in Crach first protected?
The first in 1925, the latest in 2024.
How old are the homes in Crach?
5% of its main homes were built before 1919 (median compared French town: 7.4%).
France has no History Grade yet: this page describes, it doesn’t grade.
Sources: Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée base on POP (immeubles protégés au titre des monuments historiques), October 2026 · Ministère de la Culture, sites patrimoniaux remarquables, October 2026 · INSEE, census 2023 (main homes by build period) · Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata (photos of the monuments, each with its own credit and license) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated November 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.