It was somewhere on or near the Donegal coastline, possibly even on one of the Atlantic-side islands. It was in the late 1600s and early 1700s that my ancestors emmigrated, and that's where the specific placename appears as a place-of-birth as well as a point of departure. The records of their forebearers go back to the 1300s, but there's no record of earlier birth- or deathplaces beyond just "Donegal, Ireland".
I've wondered many times if the records got muddled and "St. Charles" was never really a place name. It would, indeed, have been a weird thing to name a town in Ireland. It's only the fact the references to it are scattered through several unrelated documents that makes me think it is a valid reference.
Ah well . . . the search continues.
