The city of Is according to Count Daru

English trans. Erik Stohellou
© 2011 Erik Stohellou

here are no known children of Grallon but a girl, to whom his irregularities and crimes have been a horrible celebrity. There is in Lower-Brittany, near the village of Huelgoat, a kind of pit, an abyss from which rise the gloomy sounds: it is, according to the neighboring farmers, the groans of the lovers of the Princess, that she had thrown into the abyss, the victims of its fury and its inconstancy. This princess was called, it is say, Ahes, and is credited with the founding of the castle of Ker-Ahes, which became the town of Carhaix.

Another popular tradition relates to the reign of Grallon the catastrophe of a very old city, which was located near Quimper, in the Bay of Douarnenez. Ys was the name of this city, capital of the nation of the Curiosolites or Corisopites. The sea, after apparently undermined the ground on which this city was built, swallows the whole of it. Thirteen centuries, nor the storms of the ocean, were able to remove the remains. One can still see some in bloom, and the rowers who run their boats on this coast; designate certain narrow and winding with names that were once those of the submerged city's streets.

Sources : Pierre-Antoine-Noël-Bruno Daru (comte), Histoire de Bretagne, Volume 1, 1826