Barriac-les-Bosquets
Description
Barriac is located in the Xaintrie region. This is a landscape of granite hills that heralds the start of the Limousin region.
Barriac-les Bosquets is a commune with a population of 124 (in 2017), located in the north-west of the Cantal département.
It is part of the Xaintrie Blanche region, between the Dordogne and Maronne rivers, straddling the Corrèze and Cantal departments, 4 km from Pleaux, 18 km from Mauriac and 25 km from Salers, the capital of the Pays de Salers Community of Communes, of which it is a member.
Bordered by the communes of Pleaux and Pleaux-St Christophe to the west and south, Ally to the east, Chaussenac and Pleaux-Tourniac to the north.
The commune is bisected by the D680 road.
- To the north are the relatively flat lands of the Pleaux ‘planèze’ (volcanic basalt plain), from which emerge Puy Fageole (671m) and Puy Bouval (733m).
On the centenary of his execution, a statue was erected for Abbé Filiol, a conservative priest who was born and arrested nearby in the village of Bouval, where the house where he was born can still be seen.
An orientation table provides a view of the Cantal massif, the Sancy massif in the distance and the Monédières and Millevaches mountains in Corrèze.
- To the south of the road, the landscape is much more rugged, carved out by the valleys of the 3 streams (which may be the ones featured on the Barriac coat of arms) the Ganne, which flows into the Escladines at the Bousquet mill, before joining the Incon to the south.
The village, with its town hall and magnificent views of the Cantal mountains, stands at an altitude of 671m. The difference in altitude between the highest and lowest points in the municipality is 197 metres. The substratum is volcanic (basalt) in the north, schist in the south and volcanic breccia in the east.
Pretty rural houses are everywhere in the villages (hamlets) of Barriac: Loudiès and Vaissières, Chameyrac, Le Madurand, Courbiac, Groussolles, Burc and Incon.
Barriac added "les Bosquets" to its name in 1928 because of the hedged nature of its landscape.
Here we are in true cattle breeding land (mainly rare Salers cattle).
In the 1970s, many hedgerows were destroyed during land consolidation, which increased the size of plots, but thankfully fell short of destroying all of the commune’s copses.
Information
Amenities
Picnic area, Public WC, Car park, Orientation board
Language spoken
French