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Parkstown is a townland in County Tipperary in Ireland. Occupying 624 acres, it is located in the civil parish of
Wray Palliser
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.
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.
Parkstown is a townland in County Tipperary in Ireland. Occupying 624 acres, it is located in the civil parish of Ballymoreen
Ballymurreen (), also written Ballymoreen, is a civil parish and an electoral division in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is one of 21 civil parishes in the barony of Eliogarty.
As a Church of Ireland parish, it was in the diocese of Cashe ...
in the barony Barony may refer to:
* Barony, the peerage, office of, or territory held by a baron
* Barony, the title and land held in fealty by a feudal baron
* Barony (county division), a type of administrative or geographical division in parts of the British ...
of Eliogarty in the poor law union of Thurles.
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 Court of Chancery 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 fromViscount Hawarden
Viscount Hawarden is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.
Creation
It was created in 1793 for Sir Cornwallis Maude, 3rd Baronet, who had earlier represented the borough of Roscommon in the Irish House of Commons. He had succeeded his older bro ...
. The 385-acre estate of John P. Lanphier was advertised for sale in the Encumbered Estates' Court in April 1852. The property was held under a grant in perpetuity, dated 17 February 1852 and made bWray Palliser
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''.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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