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Cookstown Library

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Cookstown Library
Cookstown Library
Cookstown Library
Cookstown Library
Cookstown Library
Cookstown Library
Cookstown Library
Cookstown Library
Cookstown Library
Cookstown Library
Cookstown Library
Cookstown Library
Cookstown Library
Cookstown Library
Cookstown Library
Phone:
+44 28 8676 3702

Hours:
SundayClosed
Monday10am - 5:30pm
Tuesday10am - 7:30pm
Wednesday10am - 5:30pm
Thursday10am - 5:30pm
Friday10am - 5pm
Saturday10am - 4pm


Cookstown is a town and townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is the fourth largest town in the county and had a population of 22,838 in the 2011 census. It is one of the main towns in the area 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 processes of flax spinning, weaving, bleaching and beetling were carried out in the town. Cookstown's famous main street , is 1.25 miles long and 135 feet wide, one of the longest, and widest in Ireland.
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