Map (in-browser app)

Photograph of a map illustration, designed for the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail.Use this page to navigate to our in-browser map app.

Access app

PLEASE NOTE: This app remains under construction. We are still working on it and want to hear from you. Please use the in-app feedback form to let us know your thoughts.

This app guides you around the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail. As well as information, it provides a live map feature. The trail has 15 sites, including seven plaques sites (see *), seven sites of Irish influence and 1 Irish Famine memorial. Each site has a number to help you reference the site with this list and with our book. However, they may appear out of order, when you use the in-app map. This is because they will be ordered in proximity order to you.

The sites are

The sites that feature as part of the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail include:

1: The Liverpool Famine Memorial ^. St Luke’s Bombed Out Church, Leece Street, Liverpool L1 2TR
2: Pleasant Street School. Pleasant Street, L3 5TT (original school)/L3 5TS (new school)
3: The Brownlow Hill Workhouse *. Hart Building, Mount Pleasant, L69 7ZX
4: The Paupers’ Graveyard *. Mulberry Street, L69 7SH (plaque)/ L7 7EF (original cemetery)
5: Agnes Jones House. 1A Catharine Street, L8 7JZ
6: Kitty Wilkinson’s grave. St James’s Gardens at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, L1 7AZ
7: St Patrick’s Chapel. Park Place, Park Road, L8 5RA
8: James Larkin’s birthplace. The Globe, 44-46 Park Road, L8 6SH
9: The Pilotage Building *. Canning Pier, L3 1BY
10: Relief Station, The *. Fenwick Street, L2 0NZ
11: Father Nugent’s statue. St John’s Gardens (facing Old Haymarket and Tunnel entrance), L1 1JJ
12: Lace Street *. L3 2BP. The plaque is currently concealed from view
13: ‘Dandy Pat’ memorial. St Anthony’s Church, Scotland Road, L5 5BD
14: Clarence Dock *. 10 Regent Rd, Liverpool L3 7DS
15: Price Street *. Birkenhead, CH41 6DQ.

In-app benefits

Each site in the app will ink to to an information page on our website, which has

  • an enhanced Google map feature to show you where the site it
  • an introduction to the location
  • information on how the location connects with the Irish Famine story
  • a selection of images of the site
  • an individual story connected with the Famine.

In addition, some sites may have audio and film experiences for you hear and watch as you engage in the Trail. They bring you deeper in to the story and share local voices.

A key feature of the app is the live map feature. To use this in the field you will need to keep your browser window open. It will guide you to the sites closest to you or any you select. When you reach your destination, it will ping you with information about that site. It does depend on some data roaming (please consider your costs, particularly if you are on an international plan), but being an in-browser app it is using very little memory and most content is short (or low on megabytes).

App development

This app is due to launch on 17 Oct 2024. If you have stumbled upon this page before then, please bear with us. We are still working on map navigation, links between the app and our website and all of the content.

We are collaborating with Gazooky Studios on the development, which has been funded using funds from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.