Ecclesiastically, the religious parish of Famões belongs to the vicarage of Loures-Odivelas, in the Diocese of Lisbon, its organ is Nossa Senhora do Rosário (Our Lady of the Rosary).

[2] These sites were cataloged and studied in the 1960s by specialist Octávio da Veiga Ferreira and Vera Leisner, who encountered numerous megalithic remnants in an area they named the Trigaches necropolis.

[2] Unfortunately, through indifference, the only prehistoric monuments from these excavations were gathered and stored in the Museu dos Serviços Geológicos (Geologic Service Museum) in Lisbon.

During the 18th century, Famões was a small agricultural settlement (like many in the same region), and mentioned in the tenure 1457 holdings of the Chancellor to King Afonso V.[2] During this period Famõe, then known as Casal de Pão, pertained to the Gafaria de Almada (a leper's hospital) and administered by the cooper Lopo Fernandes, who donated it to Beatriz Lourenço, residents in Lisbon.

In the Chorographia of Father António de Carvalho (1712), Famões appeared as a locality, an agglomerated area of few rural houses; in the Memórias Paroquiais of 1758, the parish included 44 residents.