Meizoso, Zarzo

Meixoso passes through the town council washing the parishes of Adragonte, Quintas, Batan, Lanzos, Souto Vello y Pico de Abaixo. Finally it flows into the Mandeo in a place called Teixeiro.
 The eldest neighbours in the parish of Quintas can remember the existence of a medicinal spring water in a rock of this river in a place called Lanzos. It was on the summer season when they went to it because in winter the level of the river covered the rock and it was impossible to go there for all the neighbors who know the place perfectly. Benefitial effects were attributed to this spring water as far as rheumatic pain and blood pressure was concerned. The belief on the curative effects of this water was due to the fact that these waters gave off a special smell similar to the one known as medicinal waters of Bocelo.

Very near to it, and following the riverbed, we can find remains of several mills which were working until the end of the 60s. These mills which are remembered by all the people of the parish, are placed within the named “mills of heirs”, because all the inhabitants had parts of it to use it so, the owner of the band where one of the mills was quiet, had four parts of it which gave him the right to mill two days and two nights every two weeks.

After milling normally rye or corn, each neighbor made their own bread because all the houses had a wood fired oven , one for the summer and other for winter.

Nowadays, we can only find remains of some of the three mills the parish of Quintas has due to the disuse caused by the modern progress some these mills are (Muiño Novo, Muiño de Lousado, Muiño do Ferreiro).

River Zarzo (tributary of the river Mandeo) it is the most important of Irixoa because it goes totally through this place until flowing into the river Mandeo, in the village or Paderne, going through Esperela and Vigo.