Prendergast is a British and Irish surname.
14-530: Prendergast may refer to: Prendergast (surname) , including a list of people with the name Prendergast, Pembrokeshire , a suburb of Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales Prendergast (Solva, Haverfordwest) , a location in Wales Prendergast School , Lewisham, London, UK Other uses [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Prendergast Archbishop Prendergast High School ,
28-463: A burn-beat area. Others think the name is a Saxonized form of Bryn y Gest from the Welsh bryn meaning hill and gest a lenition of cest which means belly or swelling or a deep glen between two mountains having but one opening. It could also lessly come from Pren-dwr-gwest, the inn by the tree near the water. The right etymology is probably Pen-dre-gast. The suffix ast (cf. gast ) is of Welsh origin like
42-573: A former school in Philadelphia, U.S Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Prendergast . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prendergast&oldid=943665906 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
56-662: A period of Gaelicisation in history include the Norse-Gaels , the Picts , the Britons of southwest Scotland , the Scoto-Normans , and the Hiberno-Normans , Today, Gaelicisation, or more often re-Gaelicisation, of placenames , surnames and given names is often a deliberate effort to help promote the languages and to counteract centuries of Anglicisation . The Manx language , which
70-409: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Prendergast (surname) This toponymic surname may derive from prender from a Germanic word for fire or conflagration (cf. brand) where the b became p due to fortition and gast (cf. geest ) from a Germanic word for wasteland or dry and infertile land meaning the location could have been
84-570: Is regarded as a Hiberno-Norman name and is usually derived from a 12th-century Cambro-Norman knight, Maurice de Prendergast , who was born in Pembrokeshire and came to Ireland with the Earl of Pembroke, Richard "Strongbow" de Clare . Many of Maurice de Prendergast's immediate descendants lived in County Tipperary and southern Mayo . Some assumed the name Fitzmaurice at an early date and some of
98-448: Is very similar to Irish , has undergone a major revival in recent years, despite the language being so rarely used that it was even mislabelled as extinct by a United Nations report as recently as 2009. The decline of the language on the island was primarily as a result of stigmatisation and high levels of emigration to England . There are now primary schools teaching in the medium of Manx Gaelic, after efforts mainly modelled on
112-609: The Gaelic languages but can also refer to the transmission of any other Gaelic cultural feature such as social norms and customs , music and sport. It is often referred to as a part of Celtic identity as Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man are all considered Celtic Nations , and the Gaelic languages are considered a sub-group of the Celtic languages . Examples of ethnic groups who have gone through
126-460: The 2011 Census, these numbers increased to 94,000 and 1.3 million, respectively. Active Irish speakers probably comprise 5 to 10 per cent of Ireland's population. In recent decades there has been a significant increase in the number of urban Irish speakers, particularly in Dublin. The dispersed but large, educated and middle-class urban Gaeilgeoir community enjoys a lively cultural life and is buoyed by
140-565: The Fitzmaurices were later known as MacMorris. Gaelicisation Gaelicisation , or Gaelicization , is the act or process of making something Gaelic , or gaining characteristics of the Gaels , a sub-branch of celticisation . The Gaels are an ethno-linguistic group, traditionally viewed as having spread from Ireland to Scotland and the Isle of Man . Gaelic , as a linguistic term, refers to
154-635: The Irish system. The efforts have been widely praised, with further developments such as using technology to teach the language being put into place. Estimates of numbers of native speakers of the Irish language in the Republic of Ireland in 2000 ranged from 20,000 to 80,000. According to the 2006 census for the Republic, 85,000 people used Irish daily outside of school and 1.2 million used Irish at least occasionally. In
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#1732851451802168-618: The growth of Irish medium education and Irish-language media . In some official Gaeltachtaí (Irish-speaking regions) areas, Irish remains a vernacular language alongside English. In Northern Ireland the Gaelicisation process is significantly slower and less-supported than elsewhere on the island and the status of the Irish language in Northern Ireland is the subject of heated political debates. In Scotland, Scottish Gaelic and traditional Gaelic customs such those manifested at
182-535: The names of the cromlech chamber tomb of Penllech yr Ast ( the chief slab of the bitch ) or Llech-yr-ast ( Bitch's stone ), in Llangoedmor , Cardiganshire or Gwâl y Filiast ( Lair of the Greyhound Bitch ) or Carn Nant-yr-ast or Llety'r Filiast or Twlc y Filiast. Alternatively, the name may come from a lost Flemish settlement near Ghent, known as Brontegeest. Pembrokeshire had a significant Flemish population by
196-629: The twelfth century. Variants of Prendergast include: Pender , Pendergast , Prandergast , Brandergast , Pendergrass , Penders , Pendy , Pinder , Pinders , Pindy , Prender , Prendergrast , Prendergest , Prindergast , Pendergist and the ( Gaelicised ) de Priondargás. The surname may be connected to one or more of three places in Britain: Prendergast , now a suburb of Haverfordwest , Pembrokeshire, Wales; Prendergast , near Solva , also in Pembrokeshire, and; Prenderguest, near Ayton, Berwickshire , Scotland. In Ireland, Prendergast
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