Prendergast Baronets
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The Prendergast Baronetcy, of Gort in County Galway, was a title in the Baronetage of Ireland. It was created on 15 July 1699 for Thomas Prendergast. His son, the second Baronet, died childless in 1760 before the patent creating him Viscount Clonmel had been completed. On his death, the baronetcy became extinct. However, the Prendergast estates passed to the late Baronet's nephew, John Smyth, the second son of his sister Elizabeth and her husband Charles Smyth. He assumed the surname of Prendergast and was created Viscount Gort in 1816.
