Traditional county: Shropshire · Region: West Midlands
Explore Ireland's Cross, Shropshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Ireland's Cross map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Ireland's Cross, Shropshire, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
Drag the map to pan to any area of Shropshire or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Ireland's Cross and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.
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| Place | Ireland's Cross |
| Traditional County | Shropshire |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.968316 |
| Longitude | -2.396377 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Ireland's Cross emerges from the Shropshire landscape as a quiet intersection of rural lanes where the horizon feels perpetually wide and unburdened. It lies 3.3 miles south-west of Madeley (from Madeley: bearing 226°T, OS grid SJ 734 412), and is situated north of Pipe Gate village. Sunlight here catches the hedgerows with a particular, sharp clarity, illuminating the modest shifts in elevation that define this corner of the West Midlands. To the south, the ancient earthwork of the Bowl Barrow 120M South West Of Dorrington Cottage suggests a long, silent human presence that predates the current map. The fields around Ireland's Cross hold a certain heavy stillness, their clay-rich soil absorbing the damp morning mists that drift up from the nearby River Tern. Further to the north-west, the Sillenhurst Moated Site And Fishpond remains a ghost of medieval industry, its water-filled ditches reflecting the grey-blue shifts of the English sky. Ireland's Cross persists as a place of deliberate pauses, where the modern world thins out into the simple, rhythmic geometry of hedge and pasture.
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Explore Ireland's Cross, Shropshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 52.968316, -2.396377. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | August 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |