Is there a Daingean Parish?

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Generally our parish pages are organized by civil parishes rather than RC parishes although we do have some RC parish pages. Ballycommon, Kilclonfert and Killaderry civil parishes would correspond to Daingean RC parish.

I looked at the subscription site Roots Ireland and located one Mills marriage record in Daingean RC parish. See below.

Here is a link to the Daingean parish register https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0723

Roger McDonnell

Date of Marriage:05-Oct-1840
Parish / District:DAINGEAN
County:Co. Offaly
Husband  :KennethMills
Wife BridgetSlavin

Thanks Roger, I have looked through these microfilms and found the exact hand-written record although find one word at the end indecipherable. That word gives me all the clues and potentially tells me where they were from, if he was a convert, and even more so where his family came from potentially which is ultimately what I want to find out. I want to know where Mills came from, the name and the family. It sounds like an English name moreso than an Irish name and he was potentially based in Offaly from these records. This was a plantation county and if he was a convert, then he was now 3 things, an English name, based in an English plantation and of an English religion leading me towards the theory his name/family were t some point brougt across from England, but then how and why. And even moreso he married an Irish woman and converted potentially? And I understand this would have meant he lost any lands or priviledge he might have had if of English decent? A woman at the Offaly historial society said that this was a name around town, and that she had seen a pencil comment on the registry saying "convert" but I can't see this and don't know which registry she is refering to and when I drove there they just told me to go to the Church in Daingean itself which I did but the Pastor said he would get back to me. Attaching the image if you or anyone can make anything from it - it's the last word that looks like 'Clonmel'. 

Daingean RC parish is in north central Offaly and a good distance from Clonmel. It looks like the word could be Clonearl  which is a townland in Killaderry civil parish which is one of the civil parishes which corresponds to Daingean RC parish.

Roger