This image shows the locations of St Patrick's Cross, St Patrick's Hill and the Pool of Liverpool on a 20th Century map. The hill would have been a prominent feature in the landscape to visitors sailing into the Pool in medieval times. The cross itself was well placed being on the road between Liverpool and the Lancashire towns

I've recently read about the presence of Irish merchants in medieval Liverpool they are more likely to have been involved in setting up St Patrick's Cross. It was probably a market cross that became disused over time and stories were created about it because its origins had been forgotten:-








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