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Prendergast's account. It was made known on the Saturday morning that the King would not be driving to
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of the O'Shaughnessy family whose ancestral lands of the Gort Estate in County Galway were forfeited and regranted to Thomas
Prendergast, leading to decades of litigation.
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395:Elizabeth Prendergast, who married
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