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Welcome to Cookstown

Cookstown (Chorr Chríochach), is a town in County Tyrone. It was founded around 1620 when the townlands in the area were leased by an English ecclesiastical lawyer, Dr Alan Cooke, from the Archibishop of Armagh, who had been granted the lands after the Flight of the Earls. 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.

Cookstown's famous main street (laid out from 1735–1800), is 2km long and 41.15m wide, one of the longest main streets in Ireland.

Cookstown News

Cookstown 100: Michael Dunlop takes double and breaks lap record - BBC

Cookstown 100: Michael Dunlop takes double and breaks lap record BBC

Publish: Saturday 26th April 1:07pm

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The Ballymoney man is set to begin his 2025 road racing bid at the Cookstown 100 - Belfast News Letter

The Ballymoney man is set to begin his 2025 road racing bid at the Cookstown 100 Belfast News Letter

Publish: Friday 25th April 10:24am

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Dunlop and Moore double up at the Cookstown 100 - The Ulster Herald

Dunlop and Moore double up at the Cookstown 100 The Ulster Herald

Publish: Wednesday 30th April 5:04pm

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