Keeney Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Keeney Name Origin



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Keeney Family Crest



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Origin of the Name Keeney



The ancient history of the name Keeney was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. The name Keeney is often a variant of the names Keane and Keene. These names are derived from the two great septs of O'Cathain. The early anglicized form of the name was O'Cahan, but in modern times the forms Keane, Kane, O'Kane, MacCloskey and MacEvinney are most often used. The families of Keenaght and Coleraine were a powerful and important sept. Once established there they retained their ascendancy in the County, which is now County Derry, until they were ruined by the Plantation of Ulster . Many of the Sept appear in the Annals from the year 1170 onwards. The MacCloskeys of County Derry are another branch of the family, being descended from Closkey O'Kane. Another branch anglicized their name as MacEvinney, their ancestor being Aibhne O'Cathain.
The Keeney coat of arms came into existence centuries ago. The process of creating coats of arms (also often called family crests) began in the eleventh century although a form of Proto-Heraldry may have existed in some countries prior to this. The new art of Heraldry made it possible for families and even individual family members to have their very own coat of arms, including all Keeney descendants.
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