Cookstown | |
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![]() Cookstown coat of arms | |
Location within Northern Ireland | |
Population | 12,546 (2021 Census) |
Irish grid reference | H8178 |
• Belfast | 47 miles |
District | |
County | |
Country | Northern Ireland |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | COOKSTOWN |
Postcode district | BT80 |
Dialling code | 028 |
Police | Northern Ireland |
Fire | Northern Ireland |
Ambulance | Northern Ireland |
UK Parliament | |
NI Assembly | |
Website | http://www.midulstercouncil.org |
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 flax-related processes of spinning, weaving, bleaching and beetling were carried out in the town.
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