Keating Coat of Arms Magnet

Are you a Keating? If you are, you can be proud of the ancient name you bear, first taken by John fitzWilliam, a Norman knight of Italian descent and a brother to the fitzGeralds, as they fought and conquered the native Irish, beginning in the year 1169. The name Keating, derived from Céitinn, means sword or shower of fire, from most accounts, and was taken by John to differentiate him from his older brothers. The Irish began calling him this name from the way he attacked them, probably by surrounding settlements and firing flaming arrows at the thatched roofs.