Cookstown
 
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Location in Northern Ireland |
Cookstown ( Irish : An Chorr Chráochach ) is a Northern Irish city in the historic County Tyrone , 72 km west of Belfast and about 60 km southeast of Derry City. Cookstown was the administrative seat of the dissolved Cookstown District and has been in the Mid Ulster District since 2015 . The city is now one of three administrative centers in the District of Mid Ulster.
At the 2001 census , the place had 10,646 inhabitants, of which 52.8% were Catholic and 45.1% were Protestant. It was founded again in 1609 by the settler Alan Cook and after destruction in 1760.
history
Near Cookstown is the residential area at Ballynagilly with the remains of houses more than 5000 years old, as well as the Wedge Tombs of Knocknagappul , which testify to the settlement of this area since the Neolithic . The early arable farmers at the time of the optimum climate in the Atlantic operated slash and burn and cultivated barley before large parts of the area became moor after a change in climate.
Also worth seeing is Kyllymoon Castle , 1.6 km southeast, built in 1631 and rebuilt in 1803 by John Nash , as well as the local museum in a former linen factory. The place was a center of the linen industry .
sons and daughters of the town
- Mary Mallon (1869–1938), Typhoid Mary, first person in the United States to be identified as an undiseased carrier of typhoid
- Bernadette Devlin McAliskey (born 1947), activist
- Kenny Acheson (* 1957), racing car driver
- Aaron Hughes (* 1979), Northern Irish football player
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Area Profile of Cookstown - Based on 2001 Census at Northern Ireland Neighborhood Information Service (NINIS, accessed December 25, 2011).
Coordinates: 54 ° 38 ′ N , 6 ° 45 ′ W