Life
1793-1847; rector of Schull, Co. Cork, who discovered copper mines and
attempted to save potato crop by hiding them in one; Chairman of the
Schull Relief Committee; sketched by Illustrated London News artist
James Mahoney visiting home of famine-stricken family whose father was
dying; himself died of fever; maternal grandfather of J. M. Synge. DUB
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References
D. J. O’Donoghue, Poets of Ireland (Dublin: Hodges Figgis
1912), lists Rev. Robert Traill [?-?]; author of A Congratulatory
Address to the Marquis of Hartford, verse (Cork 1845); poss. same.
Christopher Morash, The Hungry Voice (Gill & Macmillan 1989) selects ‘On the Death of the Rev. Robert Traill, DD’, in Lays for Patriots (Dublin: Samuel B. Oldham 1848), p.108; see also note in Morash, op. cit., ‘Church of Ireland vicar of Schull during Famine, who had super-human efforts on behalf of the poor of all creeds. Died of typhus late in 1847.’ (p.293.)
Kate Newmann, Dictionary of Ulster Biography (QUB/IIS 1993), lists Anthony Traill (1838-1914); Robert Traill (1793-1847); and William Acheson Traill (1844-1934), builder of Electric railway from Portrush to Giant’s Causeway.
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