Stately Home of Fonteneixe
The Fonteneixe stately home is found at the top of one hillock in the so-called Camiño Vello. It is the typical farm and forest stately home of the 18th century and it is covered by Albariño vines, with a dense pine grove. The name of the stately home seems to come from a spring that abudantly flows in the property and that all along history produced some litigies between the lords of the Tenecy becuase of the service of the water.
The land, of about 300 ferrados (1 ferrado is equivalent to about 5000 areas), belonged to the Montenegro, the mother’s family of Valle-Inclán. In the place besides from the family house, it is found the chapel from the 18th century devoted to the Virgein of conception, two raised granaries, a dovecot, a font and a stone cross with the Calvary dated in 1746. The stately home is nowadays in private hands and it is in a very good state of preservation after being magnifencently restored.

Parish: Boiro
Place: Fonteneixe
Century: 18th
 

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