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A Carrasqueira Chapel


Dedicated to Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, it stands in A Carrasqueira de Abaixo. It has existed since at least 1754. Father Flórez, in 1767, says that in Taboexa there is a hermitage "in the place of the Carrasquera, with a fair every month". Rodríguez Otero (2004) cites the pastoral report of 1780, where it is ordered "...to be cleansed... and three purifications of good cloth are made and fulfilled, it will be taken out more outside it will make it adjusting it well... that a purple chasuble is made for the fulfilment of the weekly mass and more of the functions of this cloak that are celebrated in her not being in the days that are prohibited...". Ávila y la Cueva, in 1852, writes that in place of A "Carrasqueyra" there is a chapel "dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady, where there is a chaplain to say Mass to its inhabitants every feast day of the year, and to explain the Gospel to them on Sundays, who is placed and paid for by those inhabitants".

In the pastoral visit of 1854, it is stated that the chapel "is about sixteen metres long and eleven metres in latitude, and that it is suitable for celebrating the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass on Sundays and holidays as well as on other days of the year for the service and comfort of this place, of the Bugalleiras and other neighbouring areas, which will amount to around fi-y neighbours" (families). In 1888 the parish priest D. Evaristo Senra promoted a reform of the chapel paid for by the neighbours of the neighbourhoods of A Carrasqueira, Covalagarto, A Barraca, As Bugalleiras, Perdeán, Carreirachán, O Corvo, Os Píos, O Caneiro, O Coto, O Pazo and A Aldea. In 1922, when D. Evaristo Senra and D. José Domínguez Fortes were parish priests, new alterations were carried out on the church.