Article Nº 0807 Locality (sítio) Ribeira Brava Vol. I · p. 480
Carmo
Locality in Campanário named after a chapel of Our Lady of Carmo founded in 1658 as seat of an entail.
An inhabited locality in the parish (freguesia) of Campanário. There was once a chapel here consecrated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Nossa Senhora do Carmo), which gave the locality its name. It was founded in 1658 by Domingos Rodrigues as an entailed foundation (instituição vincular, a morgado or capela) and was the seat of an entailed estate (morgadio). The locality has 15 households (fogos, literally ‘hearths’) and 73 inhabitants.
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