Cookstown

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Cookstown

Total population

10,646

Coordinates54.64°, -6.74°

Demographic figures from UK Office for National Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Cookstown 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. It, along with Magherafelt and Dungannon, is one of the main towns in the local government district of Mid Ulster. 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.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

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Kenny Acheson

British racing driver

Typhoid Mary

infected houseworker in New York City

Aaron Hughes

Northern Irish footballer (born 1979)

William McCrea

British politician (born 1948)

Robert Henry Charles

British biblical scholar and theologian (1855–1931)

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Robert William von Stieglitz

Bernadette Devlin McAliskey

Irish socialist and republican political activist

Stuart Dallas

Northern Irish association football player

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Nick Laird

Northern Irish novelist and poet

Joe McKelvey

Irish republican (1898–1922)

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Allen McClay

British businessman (1932-2010)

Brian Nugent

Cycling coach

Eamonn McCrystal

Irish pop singer

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George Forrest

British politician (1921-1968)

Jimmy Cricket

Northern Irish comedian (1945–2026)

Oliver Sheppard

Irish artist (1865–1941)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Northern Ireland

• Tullaghoge
  2.7 mi away
• Sandholes
  3.7 mi away
• Moneymore
  4.4 mi away
• Coagh
  4.9 mi away
• The Rock
  5.2 mi away
• The Loup
  6.9 mi away
• Killeen
  7.4 mi away
• Carland
  7.8 mi away
• Pomeroy
  8.1 mi away
• Clonoe
  8.1 mi away
• Donaghmore
  8.3 mi away
• Desertmartin
  9.2 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Cookstown

Search results from Open Library.