Parkstown

Townland in Munster, Ireland

Parkstown

Baile na Páirce

townland

Parkstown

Location in Ireland

Coordinates: 52°36′59″N 7°46′05″W﻿ / ﻿52.61640°N 7.76818°W﻿ / 52.61640; -7.76818
Country| Ireland
Province| Munster
County| County Tipperary
Irish Grid Reference| S157517
Location of Parkstown in the civil parish of Ballymoreen

Parkstown is a townland in County Tipperary in Ireland. Occupying 624 acres, it is located in the civil parish of Ballymoreen[1] in the barony 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, the northern half of which is built on the townland, at its south-western corner;[2] it appeared on official road-signs and was the name used in the postmark at the post office in the village.[3]

## Parkstown House

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There is a townland house or estate house, Parkstown House.[4] The Lamphier family lived at Parkstown House from at least the 1770s; Thomas John Lanphier was the freeholder in 1776.[5] 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.[citation needed]

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[6]) held from Viscount Hawarden.[7] 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 by Wray Palliser to John P. Lanphier and Vernon Lanphier.[citation needed]

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.[8]

## Parkstown Castle

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Just to the west of Parkstown House, roughly where the walled orchard now stands, is the site of a medieval castle, Parkstown Castle.[9]

## References

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1. ^ Samuel Lewis, Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837, page 153
2. ^ "Ordnance Survey map". Archived from the original on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
3. ^ Irish Post Offices & Postmarks
4. ^ Entry for Parkstown House in the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
5. ^ List of Freeholders of the County of Tipperary in the year 1776 Archived 2012-08-21 at the Wayback Machine
6. ^ Papers relating to proceedings for relief of distress, and state of unions and workhouses in Ireland, 1849
7. ^ Lanphier estate
8. ^ Entry for Parkstown House in the Landed Estates Database at the National University of Ireland, Galway
9. ^ 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.