In 1910 Miuçalhas gallegas was published; drawing attention to various aspects of Galician studies, it contained a brief discourse on the linguistic boundary between Fala and Galician, corresponding to Ribadavia, Ferreiros and San Miguel de Lobios in Ourense, much of Hermisende and Zamora—although the last of these is, strictly speaking, a separated or transmontane Fala.
On its path from Arzúa to Santiago de Compostela, The French Way of the Way of St. James in turn passes through the parroquias of Ferreiros, Cerceda, Arca, Pereira and Castrofeito.