What is recorded here

Ballyteague Castle stands in County Kildare as a compact tower house that once wore a mysterious stone at its entrance. A flattish limestone boulder bearing a compass-drawn palmette sat propped outside the doorway when Etienne Rynne recorded it in 1962. The stone had appeared from the Hill of Allen the year before, carrying with it a shadow of Fionn Mac Cumhaill and his warriors. It vanished again after that visit, leaving behind only a sketch and the certainty that the castle doorway lost its strange guardian.

Ballyteague Castle is recorded as a castle in County Kildare. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.

Ballyteague Castle was built in the 17th century by the Butler family, who were prominent landowners in Kildare. The castle is remembered as part of the historic landscape associated with the influential Butler earls of Ormond.