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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.

Parkstown Baile na Páirce
townland
Parkstown Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52.61640°N 7.76818°W / 52.61640; -7.76818
Country	Ireland
Province	Munster
County	County Tipperary
Irish Grid Reference	S157517

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

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

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

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