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Parkstown is a

townland A townland ( ga, baile fearainn; Ulster-Scots: ''toonlann'') is a small geographical division of land, historically and currently used in Ireland and in the Western Isles in Scotland, typically covering . The townland system is of Gaelic origi ...

County Tipperary County Tipperary ( ga, Contae Thiobraid Árann) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. The county is named after the town of Tipperary, and was established in the early 13th century, shortly after th ...

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. Occupying 624 acres, it is located in the

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of Ballymoreen in the

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Eliogarty Eliogarty (Irish: ''Éile Uí Fhógarta'') is a barony in County Tipperary, Ireland. This geographical unit of land is one of 12 baronies in County Tipperary. Its chief town is Thurles. The barony lies between Ikerrin to the north (whose chief to ...

in the poor law union of

Thurles Thurles (; ''Durlas Éile'') is a town in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is located in the civil parish of the same name in the barony of Eliogarty and in the ecclesiastical parish of Thurles (Roman Catholic parish), Thurles. The cathedral ch ...

. Its name in Irish, ''Baile na Páirce'', was, in mid-20th century, used as the official Irish name of the village of

Horse and Jockey Horse and Jockey () is a village in County Tipperary, Ireland. It lies on the R639 road, where it meets the N62 road to Thurles. It lies just off junction 6 of the M8 motorway, which by-passed the village in December 2008. It is in the parish ...

, the northern half of which is built on the townland, at its south-western corner; it appeared on official road-signs and was the name used in the postmark at the post office in the village.

Parkstown House

There is a townland house or estate house, ''Parkstown House''. The Lamphier family lived at Parkstown House from at least the 1770s; Thomas John Lanphier was the freeholder in 1776. Henry Langley lived there in 1814 and John Pennefather Lamphier was living there in 1837 and in the early 1850s; he held the property, whose buildings were valued at more than £23, from the

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and was the occupant at the time of its sale in 1852. The Parkstown lands of the Lanphier family were part of the land which, in the mid-19th century, Vernon Lamphier (who was elected, on 3 October 1848, as rate collector for Moycarkey poor law district) held from

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. The 385-acre estate of John P. Lanphier was advertised for sale in the

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in April 1852. The property was held under a grant in perpetuity, dated 17 February 1852 and made b
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to John P. Lanphier and Vernon Lanphier.{{fact, date=November 2021 Since the 1852 sale, the house and some of the land that forms part of Parkstown townland have passed through various hands, including families called O'Keeffe and Armitage; it has belonged to the Maher family since 1955. The building is still, in the early 21st century, a fine residence.

Parkstown Castle

Just to the west of Parkstown House, roughly where the walled orchard now stands, is the site of a medieval castle, ''Parkstown Castle''.Map of Parkstown House
in the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. This 19th-century map, part of the Ordnance Survey First Edition 6" Series, antedates the construction of the Thurles-Clonmel railway, since it does not show it at the Horse and Jockey.

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Townlands of County Tipperary