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Taboexa in History


Taboexa -lat. tabolela (diminutive of tabŭla), only present in Galicia in the municipality of As Nieves (O Condado). This toponym is related to Taboadela, Taboadelo, Taboada and Taboado: flat, smooth, flat place. The first mention of the parish appears in the Divisio Theodomiri or Parroquial Suevo, a document dating from the 6th century that records the administrative and ecclesiastical organisation of the Swabian kingdom.


Liber Fidei Sanctae Bracarensis Ecclesiae.
S. XIITH CENTURY

This contains the transcriptions of 954 documents from the Archbishopric of Braga, including the ‘Libi Testamentorum’ that the Church of Braga presented in 1189 and 1199 in its arguments against the Church of Santiago de Compostela. This book reproduces the names of the parishes that had been mentioned in the Parroquial Suevo, including Tabolela (Taboexa).


Cadastre of the Marqués de la Ensenada 1753

The purpose of the cadastre was to establish a single tax, proportional to the wealth of each individual. The nobles refused to alter their fiscal situation and the reform failed.



Gerardo Álvarez Limeses

Geography of the Kingdom
of Galicia

Gerardo Álvarez Limeses, 1936

‘Population centres: Gurbelas, with 27 inhabitants: Leiradiño, 18; Millaxendo, 48; A Moreira, 158; O Morgallón, 25; O Outeiro, 22; A Pedreira, 63; Perdeán, 207; Rego Novo, 105; O Reguengo, 24: A Trigal, 96; A Viña do Pazo, 172, and disseminated, 9; total, 974, for which there are two unitary schools; the girls' school has an excellent building. Its main mountain is San Mamed, some 800 metres high, and it is bathed by the Rubial-Freiro, Adreira and Siós streams. There is a road under construction that crosses the Carrasqueira neighbourhood. In the past, a monthly fair used to be held here on the 10th, but this has now disappeared.

The church was built in 1544 and is ogival in shape, and there are also the chapels of San Bartolomé, San Sebastián, San Vicente, La Ascensión and San Mamed, the latter on the summit of the hill of the same name, the latter two being its main festivals, as well as that of Santo Cristo de la Salud.

In the village of Leiradiño there is a fortified settlement, and on the hill of Altamira the citania mentioned above (...) and some interesting cave inscriptions. The parish has electric lighting, several flour mills and taverns, some looms that still produce coarse linen fabrics and tow, and abundant produce such as wood, corn, rye, potatoes and vegetables, as well as abundant cattle, horses, sheep, goats and pigs.


Pascual Madoz

Geographical-statistical-historical dictionary of Spain and its overseas possessions

Pascual Madoz, 1845

‘TABOEXA (SANTA MARÍA): felig. in the province of Pontevedra (6 1/2 leg.), judicial district of Ponteareas (1 1/2), diocese of Tui (3 1/2), municipality of Setados. SIT. on the SW slope of the mountain of San Mamed, with free ventilation and healthy CLIMATE. It has 216 HOUSES in the villages of Barreñas, A Carrasqueira, A Igrexa, Millaxendo, A Moreira, O Morgallón, Os Píos and A Viña. The parish church (St. Mary's) is served by a priest who is removable and appointed by the diocese; and is annexed to the church of Our Lady of the Conception in Carrasqueira (...) PROD.: corn, rye, potatoes, trees and pastures; cattle, sheep and goats are raised, and game of various species, POPULATION: 216 neighbours, 864 alm. (...)‘ (...)’.