Anyone from the county of Cork in Ireland know if there is or was a Cleary castle?

Question

My grandfather told me his family had a castle there at one point but could not give me much info and I have no clue how to look it up.

Answer 1

there is an old saying in Ireland that goes  " My Home is my Castle"    A couple of generations ago almost everyone in rural Ireland worked the land for absentee landlords and lived in cottages belonging to the landlord. However some families worked so hard that eventually they bought out the cottage or house from the greedy landlord.  So your grandfathers Castle in Cork may not have been on the traditional grand scale, but to him and the Cleary family it was indeed a castle.  Be very proud of him,  they had a tough life.

Answer 2

yes i believe there was but it was knocked down almost 2 decades ago