It is one of the less populated parishes in the municipality of Penafiel and its small number of residents is a trend that has subsisted since the Middle Ages; in 1085 it was already " (...) one of the less populated parishes in this jurisdiction, as it counted 20 heirs divided into the 2 small estates, both belonging to the Monastery of Paço de Sousa". The parish features three hamlets, quite separate from one another, that were already mentioned in the Parish Memoirs of 1758: Seixoso, Figueira and Igreja.

Igreja is the parish seat, with a temple and a cemetery where we may still find a monolithic granite sarcophagus, with no decorative elements, but rather an internal anthropomorphic cavity and a gabled lid with a pentagonal section, which was probably made in the 12th-15th centuries. Seixoso is separated from the other hamlets by a dense forest. Figueira is the largest hamlet; it is a concentrated settlement with good-quality vernacular buildings, from which we highlight the Pisão house and the watermills, served by the water of the brooks Pisão or Figueira.