placenamesDaingean
An Daingean
Samuel Lewis describes the town’s trading calendar under its former name, Philipstown.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Daingean · Irish · main form · validated name
- Daingean · English · main form
Place & story
Thursday trade and newer fairs
Lewis’s 1837 account records a Thursday market at Philipstown, now Daingean, and seven fairs across the year. Four of those fairs had been established around 1820 and were held in Molesworth Street. He also notes that the county paid for paving the town, although its streets were not lit. Alongside trade, public services included a dispensary and three public schools, one supervised by the trustees of Erasmus Smith’s charity. This describes the town at that date, rather than the extent of the later electoral division. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Daingean. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Philipstown, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837 · Samuel Lewis
- The Grand Canal bridge at Daingean, County Offaly illustration: based on a Bridge over the Grand Canal: Daingean, Co. Offaly by Dylan Moore. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.