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Spancill Hill, County Clare

Hill and settlement in County Clare, Ireland

Field	Value
name	Spancill Hill
native_name	Cnoc Uarchoille
native_name_lang	ga
settlement_type	Settlement
image_skyline	The minor road passing the Spancilhill Inn, Spancilhill, Co. Clare - geograph.org.uk - 3460455.jpg
image_caption	Road passing the Spancilhill Inn
pushpin_map	Ireland
pushpin_label_position	left
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Ireland
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Ireland
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Munster
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	County Clare
subdivision_type3	Townland
subdivision_name3	Muckinish
unit_pref	Metric
population_density_km2	auto
timezone1	WET
utc_offset1	+0
timezone1_DST	IST (WEST)
utc_offset1_DST	-1
coordinates

Spancill Hill or Spancilhill (Ordnance Survey spelling Spancel Hill for the hill and settlement, Spancelhill for the electoral division; ) is a hill and adjacent dispersed settlement in County Clare, Ireland. The historic hamlet of Spancilhill was by the fair green, which is still the site of the Spancill Hill Fair, which occurs annually on 23 June. Houses are concentrated slightly south at Cross of Spancilhill, where the R352 road between Ennis to the west and Tulla to the east crosses a local road between Barefield to the north and Quin to the south.

Name

The original Irish name was Cnoc Fhuar Choille ["Cold Wood Hill"], which was misinterpreted as Cnoc Urchaill ["Spancel Hill"]. A spancel is a rope used to tie an animal's legs together; the association of the place with a horse fair encouraged the misinterpretation. The hill itself was called Knockrughil on the 1842 six-inch Ordnance Survey map and 1896 25-inch map.

History

Spancel Hill is in the townland of Muckinish, civil parish of Clooney, and barony of Bunratty Upper. The fair had a royal charter from Charles II. Historically, fairs were held on 1 January, 3 May, 24 June, 20 August, and 3 December. In 1913, British and Continental cavalry forces bought over 1,000 horses there.

In 1841 the population of the village was 169, in 26 houses. In 1851, after the Great Famine, there were fewer than 20 houses, so its population was not recorded separately from the townland, whose total population had fallen from 278 in 46 houses to 174 in 34. In 1911 the townland population was 72, in 14 houses.

References

"Cnoc Uarchoille/Spancel Hill". [[Placenames Database of Ireland]].
"Cnoc Uarchoille/Spancel Hill". [[Placenames Database of Ireland]].
"Cnoc Uarchoille/Spancelhill". [[Placenames Database of Ireland]].
(23 June 2009). "Spancill Hill Fair Today". [[Clare FM]].
Ó Dónaill, Niall. (1977). "urchall". Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla.
(1896). "25-inch map centred on Knockrughil". [[Ordnance Survey Ireland]].
Lewis, Samuel. (1837). "A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland".
"History". Spancilhill Show and Fair Association.
(1845). "Clare Places: Spancel-Hill". Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland.
(1852). "County of Clare, Barony of Bunratty Upper, Parish of Clooney". Census of Ireland 1851.
"Muckinish townland, Spancelhill DED". [[National Archives of Ireland]].

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