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Mountcharles, Ireland

Also Mountcharles · Tamhnach an tSalainn

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Locator map: Mountcharles, Ireland highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
TypePlace
Coordinates54.6500° N, 8.2000° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
ErasModern era
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Locator map: Mountcharles, Ireland highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Place
Coordinates
54.6500° N, 8.2000° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
communitymigration

Summary

Mountcharles is the County Donegal location given on Hugh Harley’s 1964 letter.

Open questions

  • Can the original letter identify a more precise address or the newspaper column that invited a response?

Sources

  1. Identifies Mountcharles as a County Donegal village and gives a 54.650°N, 8.200°W coordinate. This is a village-level anchor, not a precise correspondence address.

Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Mountcharles, Ireland”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/mountcharles-ireland/, accessed [date], citing Wikipedia, “Mountcharles,” coordinates, retrieved 2026-08-02..

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