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.