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Keating in Irish is Céitinn, an Anglo-Norman name that took root in Wexford and Tipperary and gave Ireland the historian Geoffrey Keating. The Keating family crest sits on the Irish National Tartan across woven and printed blankets, a mug, a framed ornament, a wall pennant and a garden flag.
Keating in Irish is Céitinn, a name the Anglo-Normans brought with them in the twelfth century. Rev. Patrick Woulfe derives it from the Norman “de Ketyng,” meaning “of Ketyng,” a place he could never pin down, and counts the Keatings among the earliest of the invaders. They settled in County Wexford, where they received large grants of land, and spread from there into Carlow, Kildare, Tipperary, Waterford and Cork.
In south Tipperary the family held Moorestown in the barony of Iffa and Offa. That household produced Geoffrey Keating, Seathrún Céitinn (c.1580–1644), who learned Irish, Latin and history at the Mac Craith poetry school at Burgess and then trained for the priesthood in France. His Foras Feasa ar Éirinn, finished about 1634, told Ireland’s story from the creation of the world to the coming of the Normans and answered hostile writers such as Giraldus Cambrensis and Edmund Spenser. Three centuries later the Limerick-born painter Seán Keating (1889–1977) put the name on Men of the South and led the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1948 to 1962.
Every Keating piece pairs the crest with the Irish National Tartan, on a woven cotton blanket in three sizes, a lightweight printed throw, an 11oz accent mug, a framed silver-tone Christmas ornament, a polyester twill wall pennant and a House of Keating garden flag in two sizes. The woven blanket is the heirloom; the mug and ornament are the easy everyday presents.
Trace the Keatings from their Wexford land grants to the 1644 stone at Tubbrid that remembers Geoffrey Keating in our history of the Keating name in Ireland.
