One small village, two parishes

Throughout the course of my Portuguese genealogical endeavours, I have, from time to time, come across many curious things, the least of which was a small village of fewer than 100 people that was claimed by two parishes.

In fact, the small village I'm talking about is the place where I grew up, Quintãs (in earlier centuries also known as Madrugas), in the district of Aveiro. Until the early 2000s, the little village was transected from north to south by a national road (now nothing more than a local thoroughfare), the west side of the street belong to one parish and the east side to another. Before 1850, those parishes were Ílhavo and Eixo. After that, and to add to the confusion, the east side started belonging to another newer parish that sprung up, Oliveirinha.

To this day, this is the case of this village. A curiosity among many I've found in the district of Aveiro.

Chapel of Quintãs (Google Maps) - This historic chapel straddles the road that decides the village into two parishes