This hermitage, located at the Casões Estate is nowadays in ruins. According to Túlio Espanca, it dated back to the early 16th century and, as a devotion to its patron saint, there used to a brotherhood of  peasants that, once a year, organized a celebration in honor of St. Barnabas, with a procession that would start at the hermitage to the main church of the village.

The building use to be of square plant and a nave of one single section. When Espanca visited it, in the seventies of the 20th century, though already very wrecked, it’s main structure was still standing because the author describes that the vault was of gothic tradition withsharp edged cuttings with no keys that started off stone with corbels. He also mentions the existence of a lighting breach and the the existing of the main round arch, partially blocked. The image of Saint Barnabas, sculptured in guilded wood and was once in this hermitage, is nowadays in the Church of the Wounds.

REFERÊNCIAS:
ESPANCA, Túlio, Inventário Artístico de Portugal. Distrito de Évora. Concelhos de Alandroal, Borba, Mourão, Portel, Redondo, Reguengos de Monsaraz, Viana do Alentejo e Vila Viçosa, Lisboa, Academia Nacional de Belas Artes, Tomo IX, Vol. 1, 1978.