Daingean
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Daingean (; or ), formerly Philipstown, named after King Philip II of Spain (then King of Ireland by ), is a small town in east County Offaly, Ireland. It is situated midway between the towns of Tullamore and Edenderry on the R402 regional road. The town of Daingean had a population, as of the 2022 census, of 1,223. It is the principal town of the Daingean Catholic Parish. The other main poles of this parish are Ballycommon, Kilclonfert, and Cappincur.
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- Locality
- Daingean
- Region
- Leinster
- Country
- Éire / Ireland
- Population
- 1,037
- Timezone
- Europe/Dublin
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Key facts
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- Daingean
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- ga
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- Town
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- Molesworth Bridge, Daingean as seen from the Harbour
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- Ireland
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- Location in Ireland
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- Country
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- Ireland
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- Province
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- Leinster
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- County
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- Offaly
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- Dáil constituency
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- Laois–Offaly
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- Metric
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- 2022
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Daingean (; or ), formerly Philipstown, named after King Philip II of Spain (then King of Ireland by ), is a small town in east County Offaly, Ireland. It is situated midway between the towns of Tullamore and Edenderry on the R402 regional road. The town of Daingean had a population, as of the 2022 census, of 1,223. It is the principal town of the Daingean Catholic Parish. The other main poles of this parish are Ballycommon, Kilclonfert, and Cappincur.
==History== Daingean was originally named Philipstown in 1556 when it was established as the county town of the newly shired King's County that was planted by Mary I. The town and the county were so named after her husband and co-monarch Philip who was the titular King of Ireland. From his wife's death in 1558 he no longer held royal status in England or Ireland, and was soon afterwards crowned as Philip II of Spain. The Philipstown parliamentary borough sent two MPs to the Irish House of Commons until its abolition in 1801.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Daingean” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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