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Cookstown

This article is about the town in Northern Ireland. For other towns of the same name, see Cookstown (disambiguation).

Cookstown
Coat of arms with a silver knight's helmet crowned by flames from which arises a firebird. Below the helmet, a shield bears two red right gloves beside a simple castle, above icons of twin bundles of flowers and a gear. A banner with the word FORWARD unfurls below the shield. Leaf-like decoration extends from the helmet, as a surround.
Cookstown coat of arms
Cookstown is located in Northern Ireland
Cookstown
Cookstown
Location within Northern Ireland
Population12,546 (2021 Census)
Irish grid referenceH8178
• Belfast45 miles
District
County
CountryNorthern Ireland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCOOKSTOWN
Postcode districtBT80
Dialling code028
PoliceNorthern Ireland
FireNorthern Ireland
AmbulanceNorthern Ireland
UK Parliament
NI Assembly
Websitehttp://www.midulstercouncil.org
List of places
UK
Northern Ireland
Tyrone
54°38′49″N 6°44′42″W / 54.647°N 6.745°W / 54.647; -6.745

Cookstown (Irish: An Chorr Chríochach,[3] [ənˠ ˌxoːɾˠ ˈçɾʲiːxəx]) is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is the fourth largest town in the county and had a population of 12,546 in the 2021 census.[4] It, along with Magherafelt and Dungannon, is one of the main towns in the Mid-Ulster council area. It was founded around 1620 when the townlands in the area were leased by an English ecclesiastical lawyer, Dr. Alan Cooke, from the Archbishop of Armagh, who had been granted the lands after the Flight of the Earls during the Plantation of Ulster. It was one of the main centres of the linen industry west of the River Bann, and until 1956, the processes of flax spinning, weaving, bleaching and beetling were carried out in the town.

  1. ^ "Cookstown District Council". Archived from the original on 4 September 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2008.
  2. ^ "Ulster-Scots guide to Beaghmore stone circles – Department of the Environment" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 October 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2012.
  3. ^ "An Chorr Chríochach/Cookstown". Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Ireland) and Dublin City University. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference 2021 pop was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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