Boetius Clancy

Boetius Clancy or MacClancy (died April 1598) was a 16th-century Irish landowner, MP and High Sheriff.

He was born in Co Clare, the son of Hugh Clancy, and was the great-grandson of Murtagh MacClancy of Cnoc-Finn (Knockfin).

He inherited and lived at the family seat, the castle at Knockfin, near the famous law school in the parish of Killilagh in County Clare.

[citation needed] In that year (1588) the Spanish Armada was trying to make its way home through severe storms off the west coast of Ireland and many ships were wrecked or abandoned.

Clancy had been advised by William Fitzwilliam, the Lord Deputy that "… we authorise you to make inquiry by all good means, both by oath and otherwise, to take all the hulls of ships, stores, treasures, etc.