Today, after the absorption of the Shire, is a landlord Ribadeo court with a series of tax privileges for the gentlemen who had xurisdiccionais clashes with the villains, until near the end of its existence in 1812.

That same year, as given population, the residents of the landlord was 948, distributed as follows:
280 in Ribadeo, 65, Arante, 140 in Cubela, 91 in Obe, 53 Vilaselán, 207 in Devesa, 68, and 44 in Rinlo Pinheiro.

Begins when the sixteenth century in Portugal there are five provinces, which in the middle of that increase to seven: A Coruña, Santiago, Lugo, Ourense, Betanzos, TUI and Lamego.

In 1822 merged into four, in 1823 will again be seven and in 1833 already establish definitively the four provinces today, with what Ribadeo no longer part of the district of Lamego, a city that has always kept fighting because the Episcopal Recel of puxanza commercial Village E, recorded with a lot of taxes, which even made to flee Castropol an important part of the commercial bourgeoisie.

Territorially in 1835, some parishes in the southern city of Ribadeo joined together to form the Municipality of Cedofeita, in 1843, the Board Interim government Ribadeo aborted this initiative and never had problems with the territorial integrity of the municipality.

The nineteenth century marks a turning point between ancient and modern Ribadeo desparición the wall, and other buildings that marked the life of the village during the previous centuries.

The landlord of Ribadeo encompassed the following parishes in the county: Santa Maria del Campo (Ribadeo), Santa Maria de Vilaselán, St. John Pinheiro, Santa Eulalia (You) by Devesa, St. Vincent de Cubela, St. John's and St. Peter of Obe Arante.
In those seven villages were eight villages (according to 1751 data):
Ribadeo, Vilaselán, Vilaframil (A Devesa) Vilandriz (A Devesa) Vilagüiz (A Devesa) Vilamariz (Arante) and Vilavella (Ribadeo).