Mills and ethnographic heritage of Calvos de Randín

Calvos de Randín has 18 mills catalogued in Galicia Nomeada ^[1]. The list below reproduces the names as they appear in the inventory, which classifies mills and bridges together.

Mills (18)

• Muíño da Coutada
• Muíño da Foz
• Muíño da Ponte
• Muíño de Abaixo
• Muíño de Arriba
• Muíño de Barxa
• Muíño de Riba
• Muíño de Santa María
• Muíño do Agapito
• Muíño do Campo
• Muíño do Coto
• Muíño do Cubo
• Muíño do José da Ana
• Muíño do Nóvoa
• Muíño do Rebumba
• Muíño do Urbano
• Muíño do Xugal
• O Muíño Novo

O Oratorio

• O Oratorio

The inventory classifies it as a wayside cross or peto. It is in Calvos de Randín ^[1].

Context

The Serra da Pena and the Salas valley, in the south of the municipality, are part of the Baixa Limia – Serra do Xurés natural park (see Protected natural areas). The mills make use of the streams and rivers of the area, sometimes in a chain, one after another along the watercourse, as seen in other municipalities ^[1]. For the legend of the Casa da Moura, the megalithic monument of Calvos, see Mouros e mouras da Limia.

Other places in Calvos

The municipality has much more than mills: the village of Randín, almost destroyed by the fire of 1889; the castle of A Picoña, in what was once Couto Mixto territory (see Outras lendas e crenzas); the Casa da Moura, a megalithic monument, and the spring of the three rushes at Rubiás dos Mistos (see Augas, fontes e cabalos); and Monte da Torre. Each mill, village and spring appears in the inventory under its traditional name, and many have disappeared or lie in ruins, so the list is a testimony to an agrarian world that has gone.

Links

• Patrimonio da Limia
• Calvos de Randín
• Patrimonio etnográfico de Rairiz de Veiga

Sources

1. Galicia Nomeada, inventario de microtoponimia (Xunta de Galicia / RAG). https://galicianomeada.xunta.gal/sixtop/visor