Clancy first played hurling in his local area with the Newmarket-on-Fergus club.
He was part of the Newmarket team that succeeded in winning their very first Clare SHC title in 1912, before claiming a second winners' medal in 1916.
[1] Clancy's performances at club level quickly earned him a call-up to the Clare senior hurling team.
He won a Munster SHC medal in 1914, before later lining out at wing-back in Clare's defeat of Laois in the 1914 All-Ireland final.
Clancy died in Ennis on 21 January 1971, at the age of 80.